But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.

If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.

If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of all. Talking about it doesn't make it more real or powerful; it brings it out of the shadows into the light and love of Christ.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.