Mature Living

Let It Go Oh, the joy we’ll have when we finally forgive! by VICTORIA YORK I RECENTLY HEARD the story of Clara, a woman in her 70s who refuses to forget a decades-old incident. It seems Clara was looking forward to inheriting a diamond ring from a relative — until she discovered her brother had […]

We Shall Be Like Him Jesus is alive! And that changes everything. by LEE ECLOV JESUS, DEAD AS DEAD COULD BE, came to life at the first sliver of dawn! Scripture doesn’t tell us just what happened in that moment, but I imagine the blinding light of God’s glory and power infusing Christ’s body. The […]

Finish Well! When you arrive at a crossroad in your crisis, cry out to God. by KENNETH S. COLEY IF YOU HAD NOT KNOWN Bill was sick with a serious disease, you probably would not have realized the preacher that morning was suffering with a cancer that would slowly take his life. He had shared […]

Heaven What does the hereafter have to do with the here and now?  by DAVID JEREMIAH AS THE APOSTLE JOHN gazed at the majesty and beauty of the throne of his eternal Creator, all he could comprehend was its diamond-like brilliance, its gemstone-like beauty, and its stormy grandeur. My friend, if the door to heaven […]

Jesus Can Be Taken at His Word Mature in your faith, and trust the Father like a child. by MICHAEL KELLEY CHILDREN HAVE GREAT memories. It’s wonderful, and sometimes annoying, to behold. Perhaps you’ve experienced the gloriously annoying memory of your grandchildren recently when they came and repeated back to you some promise you made […]

The Thanksgiving Prayer It’s time to gather for a short story about a whiny girl who learned to say grace. by LEE ECLOV LORRIE WAS ALWAYS in trouble with her parents. They were tired of all her complaining. “Lorrie,” her mother would scold, “you are never happy with anything. You are such a whiner. You’re […]