Hope When Your Heart Is Bleeding

Guest Post by Georgia Shaffer

It’s not easy to hold on to hope, especially when your heart is bleeding. Georgia Shaffer understands. Georgia is an amazing woman! We’ve been friends for years, but long before I met her she had already battled breast cancer twice, and had been given a less than 2% chance of surviving ten years — just as she […]

What’s Choking the ‘Life’ Out of You?

What’s keeping you from being effective? Productive? Fruitful? Healthy and mature in your relationship with Christ? All this month, we’re talking about harvest… looking at the Scriptures that speak to this theme. In the four Gospels, Jesus told the Parable of the Sower. The seed – which was the life-changing, life-giving Word of God – […]

In the School of Pain: Passing the Test

“Life consists of learning lessons and passing tests.” ~ Francis Frangipane I broke my leg again this week. Stress-fractured it. Again. (Sometimes I say “knee,” because that’s where the fracture is — at the top of the tibia, where it connects with my much-operated-on knee.) The first time was in February of this year. I […]