If you have felt a challenge to the core of your identity, God wants to encourage you. By Cheree Shenk Right before breakthrough, the pressure to “tap out” is high, and it can feel so personal and intense. Often, the most intense challenges during this season center around identity and calling. If you have felt [...]
In this knowledge, there is peace. By Peter Bunton The circumstances of the world, indeed of our personal lives, are constantly changing. At the macro level, we see wars, times of economic flourishing, and times of recession. More recently, the whole world is going through times of constraint due to a global pandemic. Even in [...]
Have you ever felt like giving up praying for someone? Let this story encourage you to keep praying! By Steve Prokopchak You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised (Hebrews 10:36). Dave, Greg, Snowy, and Mike were my closest friends throughout high [...]
The Bible, inspired by God, reveals His heart to us By Steve Prokopchak As kids, many of us had a “Holy Bible” sitting somewhere in our home. It either had a prominent place or an obscure place. It might have been read regularly or never. It was either a source of comfort, direction, and [...]
Dealing with doubt, depression and discouragement? By Larry Kreider The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10 Why do some Christians fall into deception and choose destructive paths? Deception, according to God’s Word, does not happen [...]
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re . . . building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. —Mark Zuckerberg Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself? —Benjamin Franklin There is plenty of security in a jail cell, but I have never heard of [...]
God's design for healing emotional wounds By Steve Prokopchak When we suffer a deep physical wound, we are rushed off to the emergency room to have that wound receive necessary and immediate attention. It gets cleaned, anesthetized, and sewn up from the inside out so the healing process can begin. We are administered antibiotics [...]
The DOVE International story book excerptby Larry and LaVerne KreiderDuring the mid-1970s, we took new believers to local churches in our community on Sunday evenings. These youth had come to faith in Christ through a youth ministry called Lost But Found that a group of us started in northern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We wanted to [...]
Along with evangelism and discipleship, prayer is an essential element of the mandate God has given By Lynn Ironside “So often our prayers and other initiatives taken in blind obedience to the Spirit seem as pointless as shooting paper aeroplanes into the sky—but the eyes of faith know that it is no coincidence that [...]
Each one of us in on a mistake-filled journey here on earth. Can we maintain integrity? By Steve Prokopchak As I was walking around in an old “five and dime” store as a child, I watched a gentleman remove the price tag from one sweatshirt and place it on another so that he would pay [...]
