Articles and More... How I Started Praying the Bible: "It is gratifying to be able to share with you something that has been so meaningful to me for so long. I hope you will find the practice of praying the Bible equally meaningful and helpful in your own prayer life." Too Busy for God's Word?: "...when we aren't pursuing communion with God in prayer and reading His ...

To honor the omnipotent, omnipresent, creator, Holy GOD is truly a high calling. I ponder how any person could truly honor GOD.Is it a process or a method? Is it heart motivated? How do you honor GOD? This is a serious undertaking.Being steeped in the WORD would be a good start. The WORD is how GOD speaks to us. Then there is prayer which is how we speak with GOD. Is that ...

Articles and More... The World Map of Christian Apps: Here is a map that will help you navigate through some of the many tools that are available to Christians. 4 Ways to Reach a Child's Heart: "To really open up a child's heart, a father must observe the work-and-keep model of Genesis 2:15." Seven Subtle Symptoms of Pride: "In his essay on undetected pride, Jonathan ...

As temperatures are soaring near and above 100 degrees, it's difficult to imagine that the Christmas season is just around the corner. Yet the time has come once again for the Children's Ministries team to begin preparations for this year's Christmas program. In this year's program, "An Unplugged Christmas," you can expect to see some real "acting" and hear some debut sol...

Articles and More... Every Hair on Your Head is Numbered: "Christians struggling because of difficult circumstances can take great comfort in the fact that, no matter what befalls them in this life, nothing happens outside of their heavenly Father's loving plan for their ultimate salvation." 24 Free e-Books for You: Desiring God has a series of e-books available free o...

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. When my husband and I moved to Fairbanks, Alaska three years ago, we felt strongly that God had plans for us in the far north we just couldn't know what those plans would be. When we drove away from Greenwood in June of 2012 we didn't know where we would be living once we got to Alaska, I didn't ...

Articles and More... Looking Forward to a Heaven We Can Imagine: This is the next part in the series on the key doctrines of the Christian faith. "What God made us to desire is exactly what he promises to those who follow Jesus Christ: a resurrected life in a resurrected body, with the resurrected Christ on a resurrected earth. Our desires correspond precisely to God's ...

Recently, I was given the opportunity to give my testimony of faith in Christ to our Sunday School class. The very task of summing up how God has been so gracious to me over forty-five years was overwhelming, especially staying within the boundary of thirty minutes. Preparing for this class spurred me to pull out some old notes, books, prayer journals, and studies that I h...

Articles and More... Strange is Good With the Trinity: This is another installment in The Gospel Coalition's series on "The Key Doctrines of the Christian Faith". Praying the Bible: "Join Don Whitney on a 5-day journey to learn a simple, practical, and biblical approach to prayer that will turn duty into delight!" How Then Shall We Worship?: Amazon is offering a f...

As some of you may know, Derek Hinckley and I recently drove all the way from Fairbanks, Alaska to Greenwood. We left Fairbanks on June 29th and drove until July 3rd, stopping pretty much only for gas, food, bathroom breaks, and sleep. On the way, we traveled through Alaska, the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Mis...