430 || Extreme Makeover: How The Joplin Tornado Reconstructed Her Perspective Christy Pearce June 20, 2017 Community, Written Stories 1 Crystal and her family weren’t expecting the devastating, mile-wide tornado that leveled much of southern Joplin, Missouri, six years ago. Neither wer...
427 || Saved But Guilty: A Drug Dealer’s Tale Lane Polak June 1, 2017 Community, Written Stories The air in the courtroom feels cold, but his hands are clammy. The former drug dealer wonders if the fear inside him is escaping as condensation throu...
425 || Losing My Elvis: When the Days Aren’t Sunny and Bright Kristin Schell May 19, 2017 Community I lost my mojo. My friend Liz and I call it “losing our Elvis.” You know those seasons in life when things seem to be going well? You’ve got moment...
419 || Misfit Friends of Jesus: Stories From the Streets Shattered Magazine March 30, 2017 Community, Written Stories Somewhere along the line, Jamie Blaine, author of "Midnight Jesus," met Vicky. Vicky, through a weird and unfortunate series of events, endured a mess...
413 || Let’s Talk Openly About Depression Emily Watts March 27, 2017 Community, Written Stories 1 Please God, just kill me. I can’t do this anymore. I don’t want to hurt my family. I just want it to stop. Please just make it stop.” That was my n...
411 || When God Says, ‘Share Your Story’ Debbie Coyne March 9, 2017 Community, Written Stories 1 It is a lazy, summer day. My husband suggests we drive out to the St. Clair River, watch the boats, and walk along the river together. We get there ea...
409 || How One Church Raises Students That Stay Sharon Hughes February 27, 2017 Community Building a Life-Giving Church That Lasts.” Not long after you walk through the doors of East Coast Christian Center in Merritt Island, Florida you’...
Surviving The News: Fires, Attacks, Crashes Emily Gehman November 29, 2016 Community, Written Stories This week is a doozy, and as I write, it's only Tuesday. Fires rage in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. An open-shooter alert at Ohio State University shut the ...
384 || God Did Not Forget Selma Sharon Hughes September 28, 2016 Community, Written Stories Selma's crumbling and decaying buildings have been a breeding ground for poverty, crime and homelessness, but God has been using Selma's citizens to m...
377 || We Are #LexiStrong: Community of Life for Life Emily Gehman August 25, 2016 Community, Written Stories 1 When Lexi Thomas went on vacation with her family in Ocean City, Maryland, she wasn’t planning on having appendicitis. Which was good, because she did...
