As another school year begins, teachers are filled with equal parts excitement and anxiety. New pencils, fresh lesson plans, and hopeful expectations are quickly met with the realities of today's classroom. If you're wondering whether you have what it takes to do it one more time, this encouragement is for you.
Three ladies. That's how Women in the Word began. Five years later, hundreds of women have gathered around God's Word, forming lifelong friendships, growing in faith, and witnessing His faithfulness every step of the way. This is the story of an ordinary promise, an extraordinary God, and the ministry He built.
As I looked around, I realized how different this playground was from the ones I took my own children to in the early 1990s—and even more different from the parks I grew up with in the 1970s.
Coach Herb Brooks is running the U.S. Olympic hockey team into the ground. These are elite athletes, but they’re exhausted — legs burning, tempers rising, frustration written all over their faces. After each sprint, Brooks stops a player and asks: “Who are you?”
We gathered before sunrise, breath visible in the cold air, rain tapping steadily against poster board signs. The cardboard softened as the morning wore on, ink bleeding at the edges, but nobody left.
“It’s the teachers’ lounge. Or the workroom. Or whatever name your school gives to the small, windowless space where hope — and hygiene — go to die.”
Where might God be asking you to obey—even if it feels like losing?
Just as in our own lives, the future arrives long before we are prepared for it. It often sneaks up on us, catching us unaware.
Four elements of The Comfort Zone: No surprises, No awkwardness, No authority, and No responsibility - so why would we want to leave?
The Ghost of Christmas Past appeared right on cue, but the next visitor is nowhere to be seen. Time ticks by. Still nothing... only a faint, ruddy glow flickering from the next room, teasing the edges of Scrooge’s anticipation. Curious and just a bit impatient, Scrooge slides into his slippers and softly shuffles toward the door. What (or who) awaits him this time? The adventure is far from over—let’s step through that door together.