by Dr. Michael Sprague | Mar 8, 2024 | Devotions
Have you seen the play or movie Les Misérables? It is a story of redemption, mercy, forgiveness, and hope. At the core, it illustrated a downtrodden man’s salvation in the early 1800’s. The main character, Jean Valjean, is a convict without hope. His parents died...
by Josh Mulvihill | Mar 7, 2024 | Aging, Grandparenting, Kids & Grandkids
Grandparents Are Influential, Second Only to Parents Excerpt from the book Grandparenting, which releases in December 2018. Who are the most influential people in a young person’s life? A Barna study wanted to know the answer to a similar question and asked 602...
by Bill Herried | Mar 7, 2024 | Spiritual Growth
Do You Have a Love Language? Worship: the language of the heart But I trust in your unfailing love;my heart rejoices in your salvation.I will sing the LORD’s praise,for he has been good to me. —Psalm 13:5–6 If I have a love language, it has to be music. As a song...
by David Duncan | Mar 7, 2024 | Devotions
Waking Up to the Way Things Are Can you relate? It’s a typical day, until something triggers an uncomfortable memory from the past. Like it or not, you spend the next few minutes reviewing a negative highlight reel from one of your worst moments. Why does this happen?...
by Dr. Kevin Garrett | Mar 6, 2024 | Grandparenting, Marriage & Family
A Worthy Investment Have you ever led someone down a trail with which you were familiar? Maybe it was to a pond or an old place in the woods. I recall leading groups of young people on backpacking trips in the Mount Cheaha region in Alabama and on areas of the...