Protective Custody
By Brenda Jank Speaking to Joseph and Mary in the Temple courts, Simeon ended by looking at Mary and announcing “And a sword will pierce your own soul, too.” Luke 2:35 Double whammy. In 9 words, Simeon makes it …
Lessons from a Fishing Net
This devotional thought, originally published here in June 2016, was written in tandem by Brenda Jank and a friend who serves as a missionary in a sensitive country. Some people are good at fishing. I’m not! When …
Smaller Than I Thought
By Dr. Nate Lowe, President of the Run Hard. Rest Well. Board of Directors and professor at Indiana Wesleyan University Each year at Christmas time I latch onto some concept that has never occurred to me before. …
Battle Ready
Only one thing makes us battle ready—a soul at rest. In 2013, my 19-year-old son entered Hospice Care, my 15-year-old son spent seven weeks in the hospital after a benign tumor was removed from his spinal cord, …
7 Days Left
With seven days to Christmas, what is feeding the fire in your soul? Mary and Joseph were fueled by trust and obedience. The shepherds were fueled by curiosity and anticipation. The Wise Men’s journey was fueled by …
After the Hurricane Hits
This is the first of a three part series Brenda wrote in the fall of 2017. Some of us watched images of TRAGEDY flicker on a screen before us this September as destructive hurricanes tore through the islands of …
Soul Repair Begins in the Hands of God
Soul repair begins in the hands of God. Two characters from the Mandarin language reminded me of this truth, thanks to a devotion book I am enjoying with two of my sons right now, Noah and Joshua. …