I have a confession to make. I work 40 hours a week as the Director of Communications and Public Relations for a national higher education non-profit organization. I also provide freelance graphic design and social media management for a few other small organizations, sit on a few committees at church, and am on the theatre […]
More Than Enough
Part of a romance author’s writing process involves getting inside our characters heads and understanding how they think. One of the most important parts of this process is asking, “what is his/her lie?” A”lie” is the false belief they live with that shapes how the he or she reacts to situations and other characters. Overcoming […]
The Fruits of Faith and Peace
I’ve been a Christian so long that, at times, it’s been easy to take my faith for granted. Dry seasons, wandering seasons, passionately in love with Him seasons. Every frustrating dry season when I long to hear His voice but for some reason can’t inevitably ends up with a hard self-examination and facing my need […]
Let Us Not Become Weary
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galations 6:9 (NIV) Do you ever feel like your efforts as a Christian aren’t yielding many results? The online church event you planned didn’t get many attendees, the person you’ve been […]
The Heart of Christmas
The Christmas season is a beautiful time of year. It brings families together, puts olds hurts in their proper perspective (forgiven and forgotten), and flows freely with eggnog and peppermint-flavored coffee. Not to mention the prettily wrapped gifts that pile up neatly under the Christmas tree. What could possibly be better? A Savior. Amidst the […]
A Time of Refreshing
Last month I attended SoCal Christian Writer’s Conference held at Biola University. I had only signed up because I wanted to visit someone there and because my publisher was pushing hard for me to go, so we could be roommates. As it turned out the person I was planning to visit wasn’t going to be […]
Playing Pollyanna’s glad game
Wow, nearly the end of January already! The days just scoot by so fast. It feels like no time since New Year’s Day. How are you going with your New Year’s Resolutions? Well, I hope, and celebrating your successes! I didn’t do my usual list of resolutions this year, though I do still have intentions for this […]
In the Temple, Part III
by: Staci Stallings First let us look at the actual Scripture for our discussion about Mary and Joseph finding Jesus in the Temple (from Luke 2:41-50): [41] Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. [42] When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to […]
In the Temple, Part II
by: Staci Stallings In the first part of “In the Temple,” we looked at how Mary and Joseph lost Jesus after the Passover Feast, and it took them three days to find Him. When they did, they found Him in the Temple, listening, asking, and even doing a little teaching. Mary was angry and said, […]
In the Temple, Part I
by: Staci Stallings There are certain stories in the Bible that I’ve heard all of my life, and for some unknown reason I don’t “get it” for a long time. Then suddenly new insight breaks through, and WOW! I’ll never read or hear that story the same way again. One of those stories is the […]