God knew I was going to be the mother of athletes, so he created me to be a pretty laid-back person. I am a person who never expects bad things to happen, and when they do, I am not one to panic.  When my son, Grant, was in middle school,…

In 2015, my finances were a mess. I had maxed out my credit and had nowhere else to turn. I owed more than twice my annual salary, and no matter how hard I worked and what extra jobs I did, our debt was only increasing under the weight of high…

In 2016, I was a partner in a struggling business.  Things seemed fine on the outside, but the inside was not healthy. We struggled to keep everything afloat.  Rather than slow everything down and regularly evaluate our situation, we continued to operate business as usual, primarily on the hope of…

There was a time in my life where I lived bound, desperately hoping to be freed. I didn’t know how amazing life could be in freedom. I kept stumbling over the daily choice of allowing alcohol to have a presence in my life. From a young age, it was there.…

Renee Connors was losing her vision due to a issue with surgery. The nerves behind Renee’s eyes were damaged, and as a result, over time her vision became more narrow and debilitating. But God… “All I know is I was blind, and now I see,” said Renee.

In 2014, Doug and I found ourselves in a dark place! We were struggling financially, I was pregnant with our 3rd child, our communication was terrible and neither one of us saw a way out. About 2 months after giving birth to our third daughter it looked like our marriage…

Tim always believed in God and that Jesus died for his sins, but always saw salvation as more of a get out of jail free card. Growing up, he didn’t really understand the difference between being baptized as a child by sprinkling and full immersion as an adult. After the…

Heather and Byron Moore share their story about starting a small group with the people they worked out with. For them, the discipleship group formed organically, because they were already in relationship with people.

The Cowan Family suffered a great tragedy losing Rylen. On Memorial Day Weekend, Smilin’ Rylen Cowan was admitted to Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Houston Medical Center. At just 13 months old, Rylen was diagnosed with Bacterial Meningitis. Rylen’s parents had to have the hard conversation about their son that…

Jim & Jerilyn Stanka share their journey of how they moved from just giving to tithing to joyful giving and opportunities they’ve had to help others who are having financial burdens understand the power of giving.

One morning as I was getting ready for work, my oldest daughter slipped into my room uncharacteristically quiet and took a seat in my comfy chair. I’m not sure how long she was there, but it was evidently long enough to watch me groan about my outfit and scowl and…

One thing that causes us to make dumb decisions is fear.  Growing up, one my most irrational fears has to do with a light switch.  Now, you might think that I was afraid of the dark.  Nope, I wasn’t afraid of the dark.  I was afraid of what lived under…

Did you know that psychologists and doctors all say that the frontal lobe of a man’s brain is not fully developed until around the age of 30?  Which really must be true as I look back at my own life. You see, this part of the brain helps us make…

Almost nothing causes more regret than bad habits.  Not silly bad habits like biting your nails, because there’s no real regret with that.  We’re also not talking about addictions.  That is a deeper level of enslavement than what we are addressing today.  We are talking about the bad habits that…

Fail videos are some of the most watched videos on the internet.  In preparation of this series, I found a YouTube video title “The Ultimate Fails Compilation”.  It has been viewed over 216 million times!  That’s more than 7 times the population of the entire state of Texas.  Are you…

20/20 Vision When you hear someone say 2020, aside from the news program on CBS that my parents used to watch, most of us naturally think of eyesight.  20/20…that’s perfect vision, right? The goal of every eye exam is to get you seeing with the crystal clarity of 20/20 vision.…

When Faith Overcomes Fear Both my children are participating in FFA at their high school. My son, Ben, is raising a pig and my daughter, Libby, is raising a lamb and this lamb is seriously cute. I am willingly surrendering my man card right now because this lamb is really…