1. Move, Before Death Comes...

    book
    01/14/19
    13 mins
    read
    By Dominick Santore
    I got your life application right here! First off, Happy New Year! It's 2019 and there's a sense of optimism floating about in the air.
    Move, Before Death Comes...

  2. Absolution Over Resolution

    book
    12/28/17
    10 mins
    read
    By Kyle G. Jones
    As a new year approaches, a mawkish paranoia sets in. Looking over our shoulders, we add up our good choices, our praises, and our reasons to celebrate.
    Absolution Over Resolution

  3. Families, Can’t Live With ‘Em….

    book
    11/23/17
    12 mins
    read
    By Bonnie Petroschuk
    There’s a lot of family drama from Thanksgiving through New Years.
    Families, Can’t Live With ‘Em….

  4. The World Doesn't Need Extraordinary Fathers

    book
    06/15/17
    8 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    The world doesn’t need dads who are more stressed than they already are. It needs fathers who care for their families, not in heroic ways, but in common, everyday ways.
    The World Doesn't Need Extraordinary Fathers

  5. The New Year High

    book
    12/29/16
    11 mins
    read
    By Dominick Santore
    It's coming. Can you feel it? It's creeping up on us like a quiet predator. It's hiding behind the Christmas trees and stockings hung with care. It's getting ready to strike.
    The New Year High

  6. When Turkeys Preach

    book
    11/24/16
    8 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    It’s strange that we’ll stuff our mouths today with a bird whose life preaches against us. For consider the turkeys, which neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
    When Turkeys Preach

  7. The Mother's Freedom To Love

    book
    05/06/16
    6 mins
    read
    By Jessica Thompson
    You are free to love your children without any expectations because you have been loved immeasurably.
    The Mother's Freedom To Love

  8. An Address to the Graduating Devils of Discordia Seminary

    book
    04/27/16
    8 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    Brothers, the rich and diverse education you have received has more than adequately prepared you for the ministry of temptation to which you have been called.
    An Address to the Graduating Devils of Discordia Seminary

  9. Stop Serving the Lord this Year

    book
    01/05/16
    1 min
    read
    By Matt Johnson
    Ah, the New Year. It’s the stuff of resolutions. To be better. Do better. Live more healthful. And yet, year after year, we never quite change as much as we hope. Entropy is still a scientific fact.
    Stop Serving the Lord this Year

  10. The Phone Number that Could Tell My Life's Story: A Mother's Day Reflection

    book
    05/07/14
    7 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    Perhaps a phone number seems an odd thing to get sentimental about, but I can’t help myself. You see, if that number, and the phone connected to it, could speak, they would tell my life’s story.
    The Phone Number that Could Tell My Life's Story: A Mother's Day Reflection

  11. “There Goes My Life”: A Father's Day Reflection

    book
    02/04/14
    8 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    One day I walked about that place I had tried to make home. I realized it was a prison cell of my own devising.
    “There Goes My Life”: A Father's Day Reflection
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