February 24, 2008 was the day I was baptized into Christ. That was the easy part. I always knew that I wanted to be a disciple. Judging by all of the times my best friend and I “bathtized” each other,...
I had been overweight for the last ten years, ever since I gave birth to my fourth child at the age of forty. At the beginning of this year I thought about the fact that I would be turning fifty in De...
Every day I am confronted by pain, suffering, and the loneliness of children in desperate need of love. Thousands of little girls are abandoned or killed at birth in India, simply because they are gi...
The Women’s Service Team is always always moving forward. We have been working together for four years planning women’s conferences, creating and building Women Today, writing articles and beginning s...
Congratulations to Elizabeth for becoming a finalist in the Georgia Author of the Year for Young Adult fiction. The Thirteenth Summer, a Young Adult novel by Elizabeth Laing Thompson, has it all: susp...
This is the next entry in the series of quiet times from the Birmingham, England, church. This installment covers scriptures to help us connect with God and believe God, like David did and Jesus’...
There are times in my life when my “singleness” overwhelms me. I can often feel that I am ready to settle down and get married. The “white picket fence” is in sight. This realization sometimes serves ...
Our God is an Awesome God! It is often in the darkest times and most devastating moments that God’s compassion and loving kindness becomes clearest. This story from the Milan, Italy church clearly sho...
This is the next entry in the series of quiet times from the Birmingham, England, church. This installment looks at verses that examine Biblical fruit, and the concept of my God, who shields and guard...
Kelly was my next door neighbor. She was in diapers and crawling when I met her twenty years ago. Though her older brother and sister were good friends of my children I rarely spent time with her. Nea...