On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan officially surrendered. World War II had finally come to an end and people around the globe celebrated a return to more peaceful times. However, on a small island in the Philippines, four Japanese soldiers continued to fight. They spent their days hiding in the mountains and conducting [...]
It’s a question that comes up more often than we admit. What does God want to do with my life? It can feel hard to live with purpose when you are unsure what that purpose is. We want to move forward, but we also don’t want to move in the wrong direction. So we hesitate. [...]
My mom has a pillow with words stitched on it that my grandmother loved. It’s a simple line from Theodore Roosevelt: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” That sounds good when you read it. It feels a little harder when you try to live it. Because if we’re honest, it’s [...]
Imagine this. You’ve been chosen—handpicked—for a journey no human has ever taken. After months of grueling preparation, your body aches from training, your mind stretches to its limits, and your heart pounds with anticipation. The day finally comes. You suit up, step into the spacecraft, and feel the deep rumble beneath you as engines ignite. [...]
Eight years ago I had a dream to write a book and become a published author, a dream I felt was God's plan. Without hesitation I rose to the challenge and two years later held a completed manuscript in my hands. It had been a long and arduous process, but the hard work was finally [...]
Last year, while on a long hike, I listened to a series of sermons on living a balanced lifestyle. During this audio marathon, I scrolled through a list of articles on my phone by the same topic and came across a quote from a pastor which said, “Everyone’s plate is a different size.” This simple [...]
When I left full-time ministry after fourteen years, it was not a decision I made quickly or easily. Thankfully, I didn’t have to leave the ministry because of moral failure or incompetence. In fact, things were going better than ever. That’s when I learned that sometimes God will lead you in a different direction when [...]
In his book A Grief Observed, CS Lewis describes pain as a megaphone that shouts into our existence to get our attention. “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists on being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to [...]
Florence Chadwick, an American swimmer, was the first woman to swim the twenty miles across the English Channel from France to England in 1950. A year later she successfully swam the same distance from England to France. After tackling the English Channel in both directions, Florence set a new and ambitious goal to be the [...]
You are perfectly equipped for your personal mission. God has given you passion, skills, and talent, but at times you will feel totally unequipped. There will be moments or seasons when you will feel stretched; your mission will be “bigger than you.” Sometimes your mission will be bigger than you because you have a larger-than-life [...]
