September 15, 2017-Love at First Fight
By Mary Southerland— Today’s Truth Therefore encourage one another and build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11, NIV). Friend to Friend Like all relationships, the marriage relationship has a certain...
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Can You Smile at the Future?
By Jayme Hull— Spring has arrived. Everyone is getting prepared for final exams, graduations, weddings and outdoor activities with family and friends. When you need to plan for the future do you get an...
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Quit Being Passive!
Did you know that lions spend a lot of their time passively watching what’s going on around them but doing nothing? It’s only when they need something badly enough that they rouse themselves and act....
View ArticleHow to Support Your Spouse Through a Loss
By Barbara Peters – In life, loss is inevitable. How people navigate through a loss is unique and different for everyone. Although no two people grieve the same, it is normal to hurt after a...
View ArticleDon’t Say It!
By Poppy Smith – I brooded. I fumed. I prayed. I cried. Finally, steamed up and ready to blow, I sat down at my computer. Hammering out my deeply felt opinions, my wisdom from years of living, and a...
View ArticleChanging Your World – Even After 50!
By Lori Kempton – I had a lady tell me the other day that since she’s getting older in life, she just doesn’t feel as useful as she used to feel in her younger days. She said earlier in life she used...
View ArticleTriumphing Over Disappointment
By Deborah Smith Pegues – I’ve just returned from an event where I, along with nine other speakers, pitched our three-minute television segment proposal to 15 producers from network affiliates across...
View ArticleThe Lighterside – A Mother’s Day Feature
By Barbara Franzen – Whenever I think of Flory, a peculiar woman of eccentricities, my spirit soars. My 50’s childhood was spent just outside a tiny Nebraska prairie town. Of the 350 some people, I...
View Article7 Ways to Receive Your Breakthrough – Part II
By Pamela Carmichael – Now when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. And David heard of it and went down to the...
View ArticleHow to Keep Focused on God’s Goodness
By Pamela V. Carmichael− Have you had one of those days or weeks lately when nothing seems to go right? Have you felt like your life hasn’t been going as you’d hoped, dreamed, prayed for and worked...
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Broken No More
By Jeanie Waters– I think the reason that my favorite movies are those movies of personal comebacks is because they tell the story of a real life person that gets their own comeback. They defeat the...
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October 29, 2015-The Power of One Word From You
By Sharon Jaynes− Today’s Truth Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body (Proverbs 16:24 ESV). Friend to Friend I was wandering around the tourist area of the...
View ArticleAugust 18, 2016-Let’s Be Encouragers!
By Mary Southerland− Today’s Truth Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints (Philemon 1:7, NIV). Friend to Friend I recently...
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August 22, 2017-That One Lost Sheep
By Mary Southerland— Today’s Truth So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another (Romans 12:5). Friend to Friend Sometimes it is the little things that really get to...
View ArticleMarch 6, 2018-He is Faithful
By Mary Southerland— Today’s Truth Therefore encourage one another and build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Friend to Friend The red bird gently landed on the tree branch in front of the kitchen...
View ArticleJune 12, 2018-The Hope Button
By Arlene Pellicane— Today’s Truth “Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope…” (Lamentations 3:21, NIV). Friend to Friend Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a hope button? Something you could...
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August 17, 2018-Boomerang of Encouragement
By Mary Southerland— Today’s Truth Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can...
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The Power of Encouragement
They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the LORD. Psalm 112:7 NIV The diagnosis comes. It’s devastating: a year, possibly two, maybe as many as 5 at best. Now what?...
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The Perfect Day
When my children were small we lived on the marsh in southeast Georgia. Our backyard overlooked the eighth fairway in Osprey Cove, a neighborhood located in St. Mary’s Georgia. Our home had a large,...
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Birthing Pains – A Memory Never to Forget
My husband and I were out walking by a large pond in our neighborhood. We live in the Low country of South Carolina and our ponds are full of alligators as well as other reptiles and amphibians. They...
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