'We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy.'
1 JOHN 1:4

‘Don’t take the bait.’ God’s inner whisper cut through the music and singing that was rising around me. Right away, I knew what He meant....

Seeing Jess is the brand new novel in the Bateman Family Series by Jenny Glazebrook. Jess Cardelle likes to fix people. She’s used to...

I'm currently researching for my book series called The Blue Flame. It's a lot of fun after writing from a place of grief for what seems...

The storm started with the faint rumblings of thunder. Then, as I drove with my son, silver lightning cracked the darkening sky to the...

“Be careful…” Most of the time my one-year-old son listens, but when he’s tired or just feeling a bit mischievous, he’ll pursue the very...

He was only twenty-nine. Why, Lord? Cilla woke with a start. It was no longer early morning. It was way past breakfast time and Cilla’s...

Anyone who knows me will know I am deeply stubborn. I have this innate tenacity that I can tap into to push past boundaries - to write...

Special Guest Writer: Sophie Keye, Australian singer-songwriter TRINKETS charts a 10-year journey in and out of the darkest period of...

She ignores the figure resting by the well in the vain hope that he’ll do the same. She doesn’t need to be shunned by someone else today....

(Trigger warning: miscarriage) 'There was nothing you could have done differently. One in three pregnancies end in miscarriage,' the...

I paced the length of the darkened room—back and forth, back and forth—waiting, listening for signs of change. Moonlight shone through...

You can read an x-ray and tell someone they’ve broken their wrist. You can glance at a CT and tell someone they may have kidney stones....

She never expected to be here after all this time. And yet, as she traced the familiar path to the porch, Emily Watson knew this was the...

Special Guest Writer: Emily J. Maurits, author of upcoming release Two Sisters & a Brain Tumour, and founder of Called to Watch Why did I...

I have recently rediscovered the healing power of story. In the space of a week, I devoured two manuscript submissions, novellas for our...

There are many who need encouragement, a helping hand, a kind word, or simply a hug. Many who need a blessing brought into their life....

A blue morning dawned as Wren’s new reality loomed on the horizon. Outside the haze of cough syrup and pseudoephedrine, the...

It began with a vision and words in the darkness: 'I have faith enough...' ... a desert where pools of water rose up from the dust,...

Will God still love me if I do not obey Him? If I know He wants me to do something, and I don’t do it, will He accept me? If you’re a...

I was born and raised a good little Baptist girl who folded her hands when she wasn't holding a hymn book and always wore her Sunday best...

One phone call can change a life forever! It was December 8th, 2017. Ian, myself, and eight of our eleven children were saying our...

What do you see when you look in the mirror? Really. Where does your wandering gaze land? What emotions rise in your heart? What thoughts...

Saturday mornings meant coffee and cartoons. Coffee for me. Cartoons for him. On one particularly rainy Saturday, as my sweet baby boy...

June 1989 I never expected a simple decision to lead me to this. Rain pelted on my window while the wind howled around our house. I...

Several years ago, one early evening, I was traipsing barefoot in the familiar sandy beach near my home. The mental health battle had...

Turm Der Mutter which means Tower of Mothers, is a bronze sculpture made by the German artist, Käthe Kollwitz. It represents mothers...

Fleur Lester tied back her wispy blonde hair then twirled it into a knot on top of her head. Her phone rang and she reached for it,...

Dear Mama, We see you. And we thank you for every moment you invest in guiding your child closer to Jesus. We pray with you for the...

Who are we? Questions of identity stir. The depth of that quest for self is confronting, and so we keep busy, we keep moving… The world...

It all began with a movie—this stirring in my heart and sudden journey back to my teenage years. I was curled up on a couch in a darkened...

As my husband and I went for our walk yesterday we saw a pair of boots left abandoned, sitting on the grass. I looked at them as we...

God is an amazing communicator. But the question is, do we know how to hear Him? This is something we are all learning more about ......

There are moments when the past can haunt us in our present. Mistakes we wish we could erase. All the "if onlys" and "what ifs" can...

According to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “well-behaved women seldom make history.” And if you’re a strong woman reading this or you know a...

'Enjoy every moment...' I literally cannot count the amount of times I've heard this from mothers as they watch me learning with my son....

I recently spent some days by the sea in my parents’ beach house, Rainbow Cottage. Their home-away-from home is situated on a grassy hill...

Special Guest Writer: Sophie Keye, Australian singer-songwriter Guard My Life is a song which deals with my desire to connect with God...

Last Friday I caught up with two beautiful Christian friends. I do life with them. They make up my writers/life accountability group. We...

Life can lead us down some long and winding paths. The paths we choose can either lead us to somewhere new, around in a circle or towards...

I spent the early days of my motherhood begging God to make me a better mother. I wanted Him to take away my anger and my outbursts. I...

A few days ago, I discovered the exquisite work of a local potter, Dominika Yindi. Her pieces exude a poignant mix of strength and...

Only this morning, I was chatting about how solitary it has been for all of our kids over the last few months. As our older boys started...

Very soon I’ll turn 71 which, I’ve taken to saying, is really just 17 backwards. It gets a laugh, but in some ways it’s true. I don’t...

In my first trimester of pregnancy, I asked my women’s group to pray for me. I explained how my mind constantly shifted from debilitating...