As I seek to understand the times in which we live, I believe that there are three values we must, MUST, embody as Christ followers, if our testimony is to have any credibility at all.

But seriously, the best time to work on your roof is while it is dry, and also BEFORE it has started to leak. 

Fear rules us. It’s in the driver’s seat of the modern family influencing every relationship, dictating every decision, and characterizing every circumstance.

I’d like you to meet Kendra and Andy Fletcher (but you can call him Fletch), and enjoy Kendra’s guest post on today’s blog. 

When Hannah Saeli emerged from a traumatic end to her marriage, she knew her family needed bonding and healing in the form of a family vacation.

Growing up, I read 1,917,523 books (give or take 5) and along the way I met up with all sorts of great characters too numerous to name. At the top of that list is a little house. Or, more specifically, The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton.

I’d like you to meet Kevin Thompson, and enjoy his “guest blog” here today. Here is what I want you to know, by way of introduction.

wrumh. That was all that happened when I turned the key – one little pathetic wrumh and then nothing.

Southwest Airlines has done an entertaining job of asking us if we “Wanna get away?” But there are good reasons to get away besides escaping personal embarrassment and catastrophe, and they don’t have to involve an airplane trip.