
When Beauty Gets Stuck | The Mid-Week Memo | August 27, 2025
Colleen loves her butterflies—swallowtails and monarchs. She nurtures them from the moment their tiny eggs hatch, through their caterpillar days, into the miraculous chrysalis stage,

Colleen loves her butterflies—swallowtails and monarchs. She nurtures them from the moment their tiny eggs hatch, through their caterpillar days, into the miraculous chrysalis stage,

When your past doesn’t define your place in the family of God In 1863, Edwin Booth—yes, the brother of John Wilkes Booth—stood on a crowded

“And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,” declares the Lord,“and I will be its glory within.” — Zechariah 2:5 Imagine your

I can still picture that cardboard sword in my hand. Eight years old, backyard battlefield, drawbridge made from cutout flaps—ready to conquer the world with

Years ago, I watched a remarkable moment unfold at a ministry conference.The event had drawn thousands, and one young man gave a powerful testimony about

There’s a pattern woven throughout human history and the story of God’s people: renewal almost always follows crisis. That may seem backward to us. We

Do you remember what it felt like to be completely free? To live without shame, fear, or striving—when imagination ran wild and every day was

Hearing God in the Moment That Matters “Then the king asked me, ‘What is your request?’ So I prayed to the God of the heavens

I’m reading through the Acts of the Apostles. I didn’t title it, but if I did, it would more aptly be called the Acts of