Do you ever feel like you could have done more, you would have if only you'd had more time, and guilty about all the things you think you should have done? {sigh} Me, too. This has been the busiest season of my life. It took everything I had—spiritually, emotionally, physically—yet I still felt like I could have, would have, should have done more. Immediately after the book launch in early May, we had two proms and our daughter graduated from high school. We put our house in Ohio up for sale,...

We have, once again, experienced great evil. An armed man entered Umpqua Community College in Oregon and killed 10 people. The temptation is to try and make sense of evil. The urge is to think frantically for a magic answer, or throw our hands up in despair.  Write the world off as going to hell in a hand basket. I have been through this thought process myself as we face shooting after shooting.  Horror after horror. But, God keeps bringing one verse to mind. Over and over. "Many are asking,...

Is loving our neighbor a solution to society’s biggest issues? Can we do it without being weird? We think so! Join host Lynne Ford on Mid-Morning on WBCL to find out how! When Christ summed up God’s commands, He said to love God wholeheartedly and love our neighbor as ourselves. Author of The Art of Neighboring, Jay Pathak suggests loving our neighbor is literal and may be a solution to society’s biggest issues. Author of How to Love Your Neighbor Without Being Weird, Amy Lively asks how can...

Got your book handy? Inside the front cover is an endorsement from my friend Wendy Blight, Proverbs 31 speaker and author: “Amy knows God has given each of us a corner of the world to share the love of Jesus and the hope found in His Word. Her book equips women, spiritually and practically, to answer this call and open their hearts and homes to friends and neighbors.”   Now turn to page 27... "...one of the speakers uttered three little words that made my heart race— and as soon as I...