**The following story is shared from the heart of Cara Yates – a true daughter in Christ; fellow laborer in ministry; and a woman wise beyond her years. I’ve left the story in Cara’s own words as I feel any changes to it would have diminished her message greatly. I pray her story is exactly…

Have you ever felt stuck in life? Or wondered if the God of the universe could really use you? That was exactly where Junior Eargle found himself at the age of 40. “My walk with Jesus was up and down based off of some bad decisions I made in my younger years that persisted into…

**The following story is shared straight from the heart of my daughter, Annah Young. It is longer than a typical blog post and has been untouched by me. I have chosen to leave it in it’s original form just as Annah wrote it – filled with beautiful vulnerability, heart-wrenching pain, and great expectation. I am…

Sofia Alexandre vividly remembers what life was like before she found hope. “I grew up in a Muslim home,” she said. “Trying to navigate life as a young, Muslim girl from a traditional Islamic home while still living in the secular world was hard.” Sofia’s life was dotted with hardships and overshadowed by trauma. She…

At the age of 34, Brittney Ryle didn’t anticipate her life falling apart. But when she discovered her husband of 13 years was having an affair, it did. “We’d had a good life together,” Brittney noted. “We even served together in church.” The discovery of the affair paired with an unknown future led her to…

People love stories. Jesus taught with stories and used them to help us better understand the Kingdom of God. Stories can encourage, inspire, challenge, and help us as we travel along life’s highway together. Stories remind us that we’re not alone. They show us places and spaces where others have had joys, sorrows, victories, and…