Encouragement

  • Standing When You Are Knocked Down

    With Additional Devotional Thoughts on Overcoming Adversity With Music Summary: The message, by Tom Sims, focused on the theme of resilience and faith in the face of adversity, drawing on biblical examples from Job, Paul’s letters, and the teachings of… Continue reading

  • A Word in this Season

    Will spring fully come? Will it be sooner, or will it be later? Continue reading

  • Who Can I Lift Today? – A Prayer

    I stand before You on tiptoe, Oh Lord, with childlike anticipation and wonder, waiting for the moment and the person that You will bring along my way that we might lift each other. Continue reading

  • Keep On … Keep On

    Losing heart is simply not an option – even when we know that the heart that can be warmed by a loving embrace can be broken by pain. No walls are allowed here. All protective devices are disabled. We must… Continue reading

  • C.L.I.M.B.

    "To climb steep hills … requires slow pace at first." – Shakespeare The bard was right. Climbing is difficult and arduous, but it is the only way up. Whether we climb quickly or slowly, it is a process. As Jonathan… Continue reading