A Sweet, Sweet Aroma

by Katie Lucy Our wedding day was amazing.  It was all I dreamt it would be and more.  The flowers were fragrant and beautifully blended.  The colors of light pink, white, and deep purple lit up the sanctuary.  My dress sparkled in the light coming through the stained glass windows of the church.  I felt like a princess from head

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How We Love

Growing up in the Roman Catholic faith I was taught some valuable lessons about how weshould treat each other, and that we should put others before ourselves. These lessonshave stood me in good stead and continue to remind me of the call to be Christ-like, or self-less, in my daily walk. However, over the years I have observed that many

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Snap, Crackle & Pop: There Goes God’s Voice

  I KNOW that we can talk to God, but I was astonished when I discovered how much God desires to talk back to us. This clicked when I heard a teaching by Mark Virkler on this very subject in my 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice class.  Virkler asserts that hearing God’s voice was like “having a flow of spontaneous

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Dream Big

Genesis 37:5-10 (NIV) Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

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His Love is Everlasting

by Jessie Mejias I recently attended a healing conference where we were put into groups of three and asked to recount a positive memory. When it was my turn, the very first memory that popped into my head was that of my “re-engagement” to my husband. In 2005, both of my sons got engaged and, my husband, Alex and I

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Book review: Beautiful Outlaw by John Eldredge

It’s Christmas morning and I’ve just finished reading the last two chapters of John Eldredge’s marvelous little book, Beautiful Outlaw.[1] I meant to subscribe to an online daily devotional for Advent but as I read it I realized that this was just the right book to prepare my heart for Christmas. But I didn’t originally pick it out for that

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