Everyone is talking about trauma these days. We hear about emotional wounds, unresolved grief, and the ways our experiences affect our health. And rightly so. Scripture itself acknowledges the intimate connection between our emotional and physical lives. This subject is personal to me as well, as the victim of childhood abuse, as well as an adult traumatic event. I know first-hand the far-reaching impact of trauma.

Do you know the tactic Satan used to deceive Eve in the Garden? It was simple really. Simply by referring to God by an impersonal name, devoid of His character, the enemy caused her to question much about God and therefore, the rightness of His singular command. You can see this by taking notice of Satan’s subtle, yet strategic, shift of language in Genesis 3. Except when Satan speaks, every time God is referred to in the second creation account and story of Adam and Eve, two

Part 3 in Christians Beware of Muscle Testing The temperature must have been well over a hundred, but after several weeks in India's summer heat we hardly noticed it anymore. On this particular day of my summer mission trip experience, my team biked to a remote village to share the Gospel. With only dust-packed ground and round, thatched huts the villagers had little and gladly welcomed the Americans who would pray for them and tell them about the one, true God of the Bi

What would Jesus do? This common & ever popular question gets bantered around among Christians with little actual awareness of what Jesus was actually like. When we see blatant sin among supposed Christians, are we to respond with meekness and love? Is that what Jesus did? When He encountered people who considered themselves righteous profaning His Father's house with a selfish pursuit of profit rather than worship, what did Jesus do? (John 2:12-17) When He encountered

Much interest exists today in end-times prophecy and rightfully so. From blood moons to the on-going crisis in the Middle East, to numerous other current events, much discussion persists on what points to Scripture's long ago foretold end-times prophecies. This is as it should be. However, when was the last time you heard a sermon on or read an article on the countless, previously fulfilled prophecies that deal with something other than Jesus? The Old Testament is chock-f

Have you ever been hurting; I mean really hurting, and God’s Word and other’s remarks, kind and true as they might be seemed hollow? I certainly have. When I was falsely accused of child abuse, I heard and received notes with the typical, Christian platitudes, from well-meaning people wanting to encourage me. Sadly though, after my son was taken away, I was terribly angry at God. I quit reading his Word and was, therefore, no longer open to God's words of love and comfort