The Glory Gap
Have you ever wondered how you might bring glory to God in your everyday routines? Routines that, well… can be stressful or difficult? Well, there is a way. Think about ...
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Aug
14
Aug
Coach Wooden
Coach John Wooden led the UCLA Bruins to 10 NCAA basketball championships. My husband Ken and I got to know Coach Wooden; he was such a wonderfully humble Christian. At ...
13
Aug
Wheelchairs to Tanzania
Lisa Miehl serves as my executive assistant at Joni and Friends, and recently she went to Tanzania on a missions trip. I asked if she would be willing to do ...
12
Aug
Find Amazing Friends
Many kids are going back to school this month, and that means a lot of people are thinking about friends! Whether you have lots of friends in your new class ...
12
Aug
The Same, But Different
For each intern, God brought them face to face with disability, which led to an interest in disability ministry and then to an internship with Joni and Friends. But each ...
12
Aug
Meet Jessica and Mike Beates
At Family Retreats, we met the most amazing families—like Jessica and her parents. I first met the Beates back in the early 90s, when they arrived at the camp with ...
10
Aug
Will My Dog Be in Heaven?
Dear Kids’ Corner, I’m really sad because my mom and dad say that my dog Spotty is probably going to die soon. Do you think I will get to play ...
10
Aug
Swim Against the Tide
When Melanie recently moved the family into their new home, she painted the kid’s bathroom upstairs in a fish theme, with schools of fish all going in the same direction. ...
9
Aug
Sunday Reflections
Recently, while dining with my coworkers on a restaurant patio, we were talking about reclaiming Christian symbols that the world has 'hijacked.' That's when I noticed little rainbows on our ...
7
Aug
Memories from Ethiopia
The other day, while going through old photos from past ministry trips, I came across this precious photo of a little Ethiopian girl I met in a leper colony in ...