I grew up wanting to get married and live happily ever after, just like Cinderella. When Charlie proposed to me, I carefully laid the groundwork for my dream. “I’m going to put you first in my life,” I said. “Will you put me first in your life?” He said he would. But, literally, as soon as the honeymoon was over, all Charlie’s courting...

[flv:http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.flv http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.jpg 300 234] With a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other, Sharon Ast knelt beside her bed and asked God’s permission to take her own life. It wasn’t the first time her fate was about to be decided at gunpoint. Growing up, her alcoholic father...

Ev's husband passed away from cancer on Sunday, Novmber 24, 2002.  This is her 9-part journal.  She prays that it can help other people who are going through the grieving process. Part 1 - A man after God's heart Occasionally I sent parts of my journal as emails to those who were praying for me. This is the first one I sent just days after...

Fifty-one years ago Orley Campbell said, “I do” to his young bride Yvonne. But sadly, years before that he had already said, “I don’t” to Christ. Orley was born and raised on a farm near Westlock, Alberta and along with his nine brothers and sisters attended a country church two miles from their farm. Although the Gospel was rarely...

Dreams, hopes, passions, desires.  What if these things are different for you than they are for your spouse? How do we come to terms with the fact that two different people have committed to walk the same road together? We know that God’s will is for the sanctity of marriage.  We know that it is His will for us to stay together as a couple. ...

Today I can look back on 45 years of full-time Christian ministry, where we have scaled amazing heights we would have never dared to dream about. We have also plunged to depths of sorrow, betrayal and loss that we didn't know was possible. We have had dreams realized and dreams shattered. We have pastored large churches and small ones. We have often...

Story told by Tom Archibald and Suellen Beatty, written by Laurie Wang TOM: Suellen likes to introduce me as her first and third husband because it surprises people. I can see why some people think it’s shocking and I guess it is, but I am so grateful to God that I have the privilege of being her husband today. A marriage  with God in it...