Sometimes past hurts and negative life experiences can cause our hearts to harden. Tormented memories can sometimes cause us to regress or it could subconsciously cause us to fill our lives with a flurry of things and activities to distract our attention.  Mike Woodard, Associate Director of FamilyLife Canada, has had a rough ride through life....

  Watch Lecrae’s story and you’ll meet a man who didn’t come to Jesus easily or quickly.  People in his life tried to point him towards God.  “Are you saved?”  someone asked.   “No!” was his answer. “Try reading the Bible,” his mom said.  Angry, he ripped his Bible apart.  Then one day, a friend invited Lecrae...

On a motorcycle, Laura Klock is fearlessly in control. She and her daughters are record-holding motorcyclists. However, her journey towards the finish line had not always been a smooth ride. As a young adult, Laura hid behind a mask. Her devastating feelings of being rejected, unappreciated and unloved were wrapped in a mantle of drugs, alcohol...

On a motorcycle, Laura Klock is fearlessly in control. She and her daughters are record-holding motorcyclists. However, her journey towards the finish line had not always been a smooth ride. As a young adult, Laura hid behind a mask. Her devastating feelings of being rejected, unappreciated and unloved were wrapped in a mantle of drugs, alcohol...

Hundreds of psychological studies have been conducted to gain insight into the influence of virtual reality in our every day lives. Keshan would have been an excellent candidate for such studies. He craved significance -- and he got that sense of accomplishment when he excelled in the realm of video games. Keshan lived in a world cradling his life's...

Gardening takes a lot of patience. You plant a small seed, water it, and nurture it. Even so, despite all the care that you give it, you have to relinquish control and allow nature to take its course. The mere sight of life sprouting from the soil you've tended is almost like a miraculous vision. The beauty of it all is that the intricacy of gardening...

Fear can make us do silly things. Watch today’s video "What Do You Fear?", and you may chuckle at how fear drives Trick to ridiculous extremes.  The truth is, though, we all struggle with fears, some of them legitimate, some of them less so.  Have you ever imagined how our fears look to God?  Quite possibly, God chuckles when we let fear hold...