Trust

Turning Points

Turning points are disappointments, failures, and crises that have the power to change your life journey. Paula D’Arcy knows a thing or two about turning points.  One major turning point in her life occurred at the hands of a drunk driver, who hit the vehicle that she, her husband and 21-month-old daughter were traveling in.  She survived; her husband and ...

Deep Faith?

How do you know if a person has great faith?  Can you tell by how often they go to church? How often they pray?  By how good they are?  Of course many people of great faith attend church often, pray often and live good and moral lives, but do these criteria really tell us how faith-filled a person is? If you had to identify a single characteristic to signify the depth of a person’s faith, it might be how they handle adversity ...

Practice Drill for Trust

You probably know who Tony Dungy is.  He is the former Super Bowl Champion coach for the Indianapolis Colts. You may also know that Tony Dungy experienced great personal tragedy when in 2005, his 18 year-old son Jamie took his own life.  The way Tony Dungy handled this terrible event can teach us something so much more important than the X’s  ...

Left to Tell

In 1994, a terrible genocide swept through the country of Rwanda resulting in the horrendous deaths of millions of innocent people.  Throughout this three-month holocaust, a young college student named Immaculee Ilibagiza hid with six other women in a tiny bathroom.  She entered the bathroom as a 5’9 115 pound young woman, and emerged as an ...

Sustainment

What is it that you count on when something is going badly in your life? The fact that you have a great marriage? Good friends? Financial security? If you have any of these blessings, no doubt they can provide much needed support when life gets tough. But they should not be your ultimate source of strength, and here’s why: Every one of these blessings ...