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By Lucy Johnson No Fooling This year, I resolve… Perhaps it’s due to my age and stage in life, or maybe it’s because my resolutions aim for spiritual growth, but I’ve been keeping the New Year’s [...]

By Kristin Molitor     I’ve been a lifelong lover of Jesus, and yet on more days than I’d care to admit, I lose sight of Him by focusing more on the next thing instead of His loving [...]

By Sara Kohl   The flow of today’s first reading into the Psalm seems seamless: Jeremiah’s plea for salvation to the Psalmist’s call for the kindness of the Lord. Both [...]

By Hilary Scheppers   ASHES & SACKCLOTHS In the Old Testament, today, we hear from Jonah. He announces to the town of Nineveh that, essentially, they have 40 days to repent, or there [...]

By Alyssa Bormes Although I’m not exactly athletic, I do spend quite a bit of time doing spiritual backflips. My days are filled with teaching Scripture to 9th and 10th graders; the [...]

By Lori Ubowski     Four years ago, I could never have imagined I would be re-living a tale told in one of my most personally memorable blog posts. I was reflecting into the final hours [...]

By Katie Taylor     As I drove home from work fuming, I could feel the anger building up from the little exasperating moments. When I walked in the door, I immediately asked my husband [...]

By Kristin Molitor     “But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”  Mark 4:20   As I prayed with [...]

By Katie Taylor     I recently left my job.  Well, it was more of a career, a lifestyle, and, honestly, a central element of my identity. I was an Air Force officer and had served for [...]

By Jeannie Ewing     The first memory I have of life was when I was three years old. I lived with my parents in a ranch-style home in southern Kentucky, and everything evoked fear in [...]