Philippians 4:12-13

So many people I’ve talked to recently speak of feeling “beat up” especially after the holidays. Family time has been scathing and torturous rather than enjoyable. Relationships you thought you could count on have turned on you and left you feeling betrayed. The days you looked forward to because of…

I had a dream this week that has stayed with me as a comfort and encouragement. In the dream, I was a little girl standing in a giant cave with lots of people milling around. To get out of the cave, I had to climb a steep dirt slope, and I was exhausted. I flopped down on the ground, giving up any c…

Contentment is found in constant reliance on God at all times.…

Do you wonder what God has in store for you next year, and how will you find His strength—just in time? Look to His Word. He will enable you to do all that He asks.…

Who would buy this? Who would fall for this? We would. Reality is far more subtle than a $3.49 bag of fake pennies, but we often settle for cheap imitations of the real thing—and it costs us far m……

Is it tough to imagine that people with abundance struggle with contentment? Shouldn’t the wealthy and most successful people be the happiest? The opposite seems true as Americans are becoming less……

We’ve all heard that money can’t buy happiness, right? Isn’t that a cliché we’ve all heard, or was I just raised in a weird family? Even if we’ve all heard it, not everyone believes it. Sixty perce……

Sometimes the callings on our lives seem so grand and enlightening. And sometimes, they seem more like just surviving. Our week-long camping trip in southern Colorado turned out like the latter. After pulling the kids out of school, we would head off to the Great Sand Dunes for a few days, followed…

We’ve all heard that money can’t buy happiness, right? Isn’t that a cliché we’ve all heard, or was I just raised in a weird family? Even if we’ve all heard it, not everyone believes it. Sixty perce……

Contentment must be learned. God is our teacher and source of contentment.…