"I could feel hot, salty tears coming down my face. I sat and cried silently... I was scrunching myself up against the wall as far as I could. All of a sudden, someone from behind us taps on the guy’s shoulder..."
In churches across America, a quiet but consequential conversation is unfolding. It often begins with a question—sometimes whispered, sometimes posted publicly on social media....
"Once intimacy begins to wane, it can become hard to get back on track. One of the keys to reconnecting is understanding that intimacy is a multifaceted thing. In fact, there are five different types of intimacy, and only when we keep all five functioning can we have marriages that feel profoundly connected."
Just seven days after it became the scene of the deadliest shooting in Texas history, First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, reopened its doors on Sunday to commemorate the 26 lives lost just one week prior.
It was 2008 when Katherine Wolf suffered a massive brain stem stroke that would forever change her life. At just 26 years old, the wife and brand new mother was not expected to live, much less recover.
Ryland’s uncle Michael Ward told The New York Daily News that he carried his nephew out of the church following the attack, where a helicopter rushed him to the hospital. According to the outlet, he’d found the child “clinging to a church pew” after the shooting.
An emotional Carrie Underwood is still giving me goosebumps following her gut-wrenching performance at Wednesday night’s 51st annual CMA Awards, in which the Country Music Association honored those in the country community who lost their lives this year.
“We lost more than Belle yesterday, and one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is the fact that Belle was surrounded yesterday by her church family, who she loved fiercely, and vice versa.”
"AGAIN? I found myself questioning WHY God, does this keep happening? WHY are we losing precious souls—lives You created and formed with your own hands—to the monstrous acts of true evil?"
“It’s interesting — on one hand we honor Hugh Hefner when he passes away — the dude was a pornographer. But yet Harvey Weinstein is this demon in culture right now and I said, we’ve got to pick our poison.”
