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Free Gifts Galore
A baby born in Bethlehem was only the beginning! Hope lives on when we experience our own new birth in Christ. Please enjoy these free phone wallpapers to remember the real reason for the season! Press and hold either image to save it to your mobile device, then set it as your lockscreen or wallpaper. Merry Christmas to you and your neighbors! Don't forget to sign up for your free Christmas gifts when you purchase Can I Borrow a Cup of Hope? or How to Love Your Neighbor Without Being Weird!
Significant Woman Podcast
The Significant Women podcast is full of personal stories, dynamic hope, and sage wisdom from women who have gleaned all that they can from the ordinary days of an uncommon life. They aren’t significant because of their fame or success…they are significant because Jesus is in the details of their lives. Join the conversation as I sat down with Carol McLeod to share my story of coming back to faith and answering God's call in my life. We talked about how The Neighborhood Cafe inspires and...
Kind Words from Amy Carroll and Lynn Cowell
“In Can I Borrow a Cup of Hope? Amy Lively achieves two of my favorite things: engaging teaching and deep Bible study. This thoroughly researched study of 1 Peter weaves the scriptural threads of Peter’s story together in ways that will challenge the mature Bible student and thrill the newest. As I connected my story to Peter’s in the book’s practical exercises, I had both ‘aha’ and ‘oh ouch!’ moments. This is the resource you need to fan the flame of hope.”How we met... Amy Carroll has a...
Fruit Requires Fertilizer
Having a 💩 week? Here’s hope. Jesus told a parable in Luke 13 about a fruit tree with no fruit. The owner told his gardener to cut it down, it’s wasting space, but the gardener asked to give it one more chance. “Let me dig around it and put some manure on it and see what happens.” If you’re in a season that feels like everything you hold dear has been dug up, pulled out, and pruned off - then topped with a steaming shovel full of manure - there’s fruit in that. Grow deep, friend, and...
Why Thoughts Aren’t Prayers
According to my car, the outside temperature was 103 degrees. But inside the car, where a glitch caused the air conditioning to intermittently stop working, it felt like the surface of the sun. My GPS showed a solid red line of traffic on the parched Florida highway stretching on for miles and miles. “God can fix it!” I thought, wondering if he would send an ambulance, sirens blaring, to administer intravenous fluids just in time to save me from heat stroke. Maybe he would open a new lane...
