Faith

Are you excited about the New Year that awaits us just around the corner?  Are you thinking up new things to do, or see, or simply experience?  Or are you considering the steps you can take to make life a bit easier, like slowing down your pace, or cutting back ...

In the United States approximately 75%-80% of the population calls themselves Christian.  Out of that large group, only 1% is part of an Orthodox Church (OC).  There are a variety of types of Orthodoxy.  They generally come from Greece, Russia, or various eastern European countries.  Worldwide, the OC numbers about ...

“I’m nervous now when teens tell me they’ll be attending a Christian college,” a youth pastor recently told me. His statement was part of a discussion that confirmed the trend I’d observed with youth with whom I’ve kept in touch through the post-college years: many are walking away from their ...

  It has been said, “After great love comes great grief” (Betty J. Carmack, 2003) Does it ever end?  You wake up and the reality hits you, it DID happen.  You try to, or just long to, run from it.  Just run!  Yet you can’t run fast enough.  It’s like ...

Fear. Uncertainty of what the future may hold. Pride. All are ways that the spirits of darkness hold us back from our heart’s desire to change. “What will they think of me?…I’ve been this way for so long…They’ll think I’m crazy, gone off the deep end… They might even call ...