Life Lessons

Chaos When There Is No Law

by Paul Suckling
September 18, 2014 • 4 minute read

When laws are not observed on the road, chaos is the result. These two stories demonstrate our need for God’s law. In 1967 Sweden announced a new law that required drivers to change...

The Power of Choice: Complaining, Comfort and Contentment

Power of Choice: Complaining, Comfort, Contentment

by Leslie Bosserman
June 27, 2014 • 6 minute read

Challenges like serving abroad can stretch our comfort zones and teach us things about ourselves and true contentment. It’s all about choices. As we sat around the Bedouin campsite, it...

Buckingham Palace: The Home of British Royalty

by Paul Suckling
September 3, 2013 • 4 minute read

A recent tour of Buckingham Palace in London, England, led the author to ponder an even greater seat of power. Recently my wife and I, along with hundreds of others, were able to stroll at...

Don’t Forget What God Says to Remember

by Erik Jones
June 18, 2013 • 5 minute read

Forgetfulness is a natural tendency. We all forget things, even when we are told to remember. Could you be forgetting a big thing that God says to remember? I forgot! Have you ever, in a...

If I Were a Rich Dad

by Mike Bennett
June 14, 2013 • 3 minute read

The book Rich Dad, Poor Dad taps into our desire to understand what the rich know. But I look to a different book to understand fatherhood—and true riches! Many years ago on a long...

When Will Scars Heal?

by Jeremy Lallier
April 24, 2013 • 5 minute read

We all experience physical and mental scars in this life. But God promises a time when all the pains and sorrows of this life will be things of the past. I have this really ugly scar on the...

Make Sure You’re Going the Right Direction

by Becky Bennett
December 9, 2012 • 6 minute read

“Lefty loosey, righty tighty” goes the old handyman’s expression. I thought I was going loosey—but in fact, I was making the nut mighty tighty! After weeks of...

Remember Pompeii

by Debbie Pennington
September 24, 2012 • 4 minute read

Aug. 24 in Pompeii was a day that began like any other but ended in disaster. Though I knew the story, I wasn’t quite prepared for its full impact.

Hope in the Midst of Trials

by Lori Bryant McEachern
September 11, 2012 • 6 minute read

As the one-year anniversary of my husband’s death approaches, I realize I have learned many painful lessons. Here’s what I’m learning about hope. In the last year since my...

Grasping sand is like grasping the wind—pointless.

Real Success vs. Grasping for the Wind

by Eddie Johnson
July 19, 2012 • 4 minute read

Two men who were fantastically successful financially looked back on their lives with frustration. What can we learn about the real meaning of life? In the mid-1960s in the United Kingdom...

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of Louis Zamperini.

An Amazing Story of Change

by Hervé Irion
June 25, 2012 • 3 minute read

The story of Louis Zamperini is one of endurance, resilience, forgiveness and change. Not in his wildest dreams did Louis foresee the afflictions about to fall on him. It all started during...

Two Views of Life: YOLO vs. YCLF

by Erica Golden
June 25, 2012 • 4 minute read

If you only live once, you might as well do whatever you want. But is it possible to enjoy this life abundantly and still live for a brighter tomorrow? YOLO: “You Only Live...

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