5 Things to Look for in a Career

If you have ever worked a position you knew would be temporary, you probably realize the fundamental difference between a job and a career. While a job pays the bills and can be a step forward in a career, your career is focused on long-term growth and development. With a career’s big-picture nature, the question of what you really want out of it becomes much more important. If you get ten…

Hope When Parenting Is Hard

Looking down at the two young children clinging to my pant legs, the elderly woman remarked, "When they are little they step on your toes. When they are grown, they step on your heart." I looked at her in horror. "Don't tell me that," I thought. "That would mean everything I'm going through, pouring my life into my children is all for nothing." Forty-plus years of parenting later, I understand…

Kind, Compassionate

"All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you."—Ephesians 4:31–32 NASB In the last half of his letter to the Ephesians, Paul turned to practical matters focusing on how believers lived. As followers of Jesus, they were to be different than…

Beautiful Warrior: Hello, My Name Isn’t

Book excerpt from Beautiful Warrior: Finding Victory Over the Lies Formed Against You Introduction: Why Me? Fresh print lured me in. Textured hardcovers called for me to caress them. Smooth pages kissed my fingertips. Written treasures dazzled my eyes as I floated along the aisles. Book-intoxicated passion drew me further. Dead center in the bookstore, I froze. Dread raised the hair on my…

Trust in the Truth: God is Listening

Excerpted from Is God Listening? What If He Doesn't Answer?  by  Dave Deuel for Joni and Friends. Is God Listening? Most people are familiar with the story of Job. Job was a good and prosperous man who loved God. But what started out as an ordinary day for Job suddenly turned into his worst nightmare, as he was flooded with wave upon wave of tragic news (Job 1). One at a time, messengers…

Be Shook but Not Shaken

Excerpt taken from The Art of Overcoming: Letting God Turn Your Endings into Beginnings by Tim Timberlake The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 was one of the worst nuclear power plant incidents ever. The disaster originated off the coast of Japan, deep under the ocean, with a magnitude-9 earthquake that lasted for six minutes. This caused the reactors’ energy supply to fail, meaning…

County Line

When his best friend, Sheriff Clint Thorne (Jeff Fahey, Texas Rising, Justified), is brutally gunned down, former neighboring county sheriff, Alden Rockwell (Tom Wopat, The Dukes Of Hazzard, Longmire) is left with many questions and no answers. After the investigation stalls and his replacement, Sheriff Preston (Grant Goodeve, Eight is Enough, Dynasty) turns a blind eye, Alden takes the case into…

Dave Says: What Do You Want to Do?

Dear Dave, My husband and I are in our mid-twenties, and we are expecting our first baby this year. We are also debt-free, except for our mortgage, and we expect to have it paid off in about four years. It has always been our dream for me to stay home with our kids, and maybe even homeschool them, when the time was right. My husband makes more than enough for us to live on, so we have always…

Chuck Masek: At War with the Big Dogs (Part 1)

John Farrell: Could you please tell me a little bit about your book, At War with the Big Dogs? Chuck Masek: The book is a true story about a company my wife and I started back in 1992. We decided to start reprocessing devices labeled single-use by the manufacturer. These are medical devices. Since Medicare got involved in 1965, from 1970 till about 1980, the disposal shot up. It became the…

How You Can Enjoy Today in the Midst of Trials

RR: You've written a book titled Enjoy Today Own Tomorrow, and it came out right in the middle of a pandemic. I understand the last few months have been very difficult for you. Can you tell us a little bit about what you've experienced over the last couple of months? Laine: To start with, it must have been a topic of great need. I was so blessed to be a bestselling author the second day that…