Terror in Toulouse

In 2012, a radical Islamist opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, leaving an instructor and three young students dead--the first time children had been murdered in France since the Holocaust. Lisa Burkhardt Worley travels to Toulouse to look at antisemitism in France today...and what it takes for the community to heal.   Watch on Inspiration TV: Monday, May 13 at 3…

Grace Anna Sings: A Story of Hope through a Little Girl with a Big Voice

Book Excerpt from Grace Anna Sings: A Story of Hope through a Little Girl with a Big Voice by Angela Ray Rodgers & Grace Anna Unexpected events in life often shape the people we become. How we react to those events can help others. Grace Anna’s video gave our family the opportunity to bring awareness—not only to how amazing she was, but to her genetic disorder and the lives of children with…

Children of Shanghai

A single leap of faith can change the world! Children of Shanghai shares how an unlikely partnership between British footballer Robert Glover and the Chinese government led to the first foster children in China’s 3,000-year history. In 1998, Robert and his family moved from the UK to found Care for Children, which placed nearly a million Chinese orphans with families desperate to overcome…

The Holy One

The holiness of God is so magnificent, encountering it always causes trembling. This name in Hebrew – Qadosh – conveys the reality that our God is completely set apart from all else. He is one of a kind, without equal. God’s loving humility enhances His holiness as we see Him gently, gradually invest thousands of years to reveal His holiness. Our first glimpse of holiness comes through Moses…

No Tears in Heaven

Excerpt from The Mostly True Stories Of Dr. Juan Harrison Revelation 21:4 says: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away. Skeeter Davis sang, “No tears in Heaven, no sorrows given, all will be glory in that land; there’ll be no sadness, all will…

Let God Arise!

Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered. – Psalm 68:1 God wants to arise in your life and put an end to your pain, your endless toil, and your disappointments. But you have a role to play in your turnaround. Instead of being passive, you must aggressively lay hold of the great future God has planned for you. The Lord tells us, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and…

Needing God

"Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."—Hebrews 4:16 NIV Even as a young girl, Annie Hawks wrote poems that expressed her faith in God. This relationship blossomed as she grew older. One day when she was 37, she was going about normal activities when suddenly she felt a special sense of closeness…

Fear Nots

Hebrews 2:15 tells us that one thing is powerful enough to hold people in bondage all their lives — the fear of death. But the apostle Paul spent an entire chapter of 1 Corinthians explaining how Christ, by His resurrection, defeated death: “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55). The Tables Have Turned Satan will capitalize on any opportunity…

Anchored by Hope, Amazed by God

I used to be one of the most negative people I knew. My motto was, “If I don’t expect anything good to happen, then I won’t be disappointed when it doesn’t.” But God’s way of seeing things is just the opposite! He wants us to live our lives filled with hope, expecting Him to do something great at any moment. What is hope? One definition of hope is “a favorable and confident expectation.” It’s…

My First Miracle

Angelica (Katya Martin), a 17-year-old girl, battles Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a rare cancer. As she struggles with the possibility of not leading a normal life – including her first love and her first kiss – her parents struggle with fear, finances, and getting Angelica to her chemo treatments. When given the impossible and told the unthinkable, the family prays for a miracle. They…