Alone and discouraged, I sat staring at a computer screen. I was frustrated by the way my life had turned out. I’d worked hard to hold onto remnants of hope for my marriage, but each day that summer I could feel it slipping through my fingers.  I felt so alone.  God was still there, I knew, but there was a longing for people who would talk back....

It takes time to build a new community of friends and right now, I'm tired, my heart is burdened and I’m a little sad. I don't want to wait to meet new people. There are things I want to share right now, thoughts I’d like to bounce around. I feel like I don't know who I can turn to just to "be" with me. I wanted to eat lunch with a friend...

A recent Religion News Service headline reports, “Single Adults Want Ministry, Not Sympathy”. According to RNS, singles are “part of a demographic -- men and women of childbearing age without children -- that nearly doubled in 24 years, from 10 percent of the population in 1976 to 19 percent in 2000.”* How can marrieds interact with...

How important is control to you? What about self-control? Christ-followers are challenged to grow in self-control. How is this possible? In this study we will explore the value and necessity of self-control in our lives today. The Foundation for Self-Control How to Live a “Self-Controlled” Life Our Pattern for Self Control

With no resurrection, there's no Easter Easter is the time of year to get together with loved ones and celebrate family traditions which often include: Easter dinner, jelly beans, Easter egg hunts and, of course, a trip to church. The big question is why bother going to church? If Jesus was simply a good man who lived 2,000 years ago, why...

What was Jesus like? What did he actually say? This is taken directly from the New Living Translation of the Bible. It’s written by one of Jesus’ disciples and recounts Jesus’ life and teachings. The following is a 21 part reading of the Gospel of John. Chapter 1 - Christ, the Eternal Word 1In the beginning the Word already existed....

As an instructor at a Christian writer's conference, I was scheduled to spend half-hour advisory sessions with students who signed up to talk to me. But my appointment with Jennifer* turned out to be a personal counseling session! "I'm divorced," the young woman told me. "I have two little children, and now they have been robbed of their father...