How about that BYU football team? My alma mater was picked to win four games this season. However the season turns out, it will have been an amazing season. I also have five other reasons why I am deeply thankful this year. I hope these blessings transform your life as they have transformed mine. The love of God in Christ is the foundation of the historic Christian faith.
Knowing I am loved by God frees me from chasing approval and people pleasing. His love gives me the courage to love boldly and live fully. When we are honest, we know life is messy, and sin stains every part of our existence. Not halfway, but totally.
This truth humbles me. I simply receive it as a gift. Grace is the unmerited favor of God. Grace meets us in our failures. Grace teaches me that life is not about what I can do for God, but about what He has done and continues to do for me. That truth keeps me humble and reliant on him. My prayer for all of us this Thanksgiving is that we would cultivate a deep, abiding thankfulness that fuels every aspect of our lives.
The Rev. Derwin L. Exclusive: Lawsuits against MorningStar Fellowship Church will continue after a volunteer sexually assaulted boys. Sometimes the "unexplainable" can be explained after all! The records, which the Saints and church had long sought to keep out of public view, reveal team executives played a more extensive role than previously known in a public relations campaign to mitigate fallout from the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
A jarring call was played in a Calgary courtroom Monday as jurors heard the voice of a distraught year-old woman who had just been raped in her assisted living apartment. Duran Ross Buffalo. A group of four tactically-trained band dads jumped into action Saturday and apprehended an active shooter at a band competition at Pasadena Memorial High School.
