Lynn Pryor

HEAVY­WEIGHT GOD LIFTS THE BURDENS OF THE SECRETS YOU KEEP by Joe Whitten KEEPING A SECRET for 58 years took a terrible toll. I walled myself in and walled others out — even my wife — lest they discover too much about me. And all the while the burden required that I appeared to be […]

The Giving Family Allow God to open your heart and generously bless others out of your abundance. by April Graney ‘‘I WISH YOU COULD’VE SEEN her reaction! She was jumping up and down crying for joy! She couldn’t wait to tell her son, George, that God had answered their prayers!” When I read the above […]

Heaven What does the hereafter have to do with the here and now?  by DAVID JEREMIAH AS THE APOSTLE JOHN gazed at the majesty and beauty of the throne of his eternal Creator, all he could comprehend was its diamond-like brilliance, its gemstone-like beauty, and its stormy grandeur. My friend, if the door to heaven […]

Jesus Can Be Taken at His Word Mature in your faith, and trust the Father like a child. by MICHAEL KELLEY CHILDREN HAVE GREAT memories. It’s wonderful, and sometimes annoying, to behold. Perhaps you’ve experienced the gloriously annoying memory of your grandchildren recently when they came and repeated back to you some promise you made […]

Redefine Healing. Manifest Hope. Katherine and Jay Wolf have a different spin on joy in life. BY COURTNEY KEEN A MISSIONARY TAKES a journey to offer a life-saving message. “Similarly, we felt that Katherine has come a long way — from the brink of death, really, to share something important,” Jay Wolf says of his […]

The Thanksgiving Prayer It’s time to gather for a short story about a whiny girl who learned to say grace. by LEE ECLOV LORRIE WAS ALWAYS in trouble with her parents. They were tired of all her complaining. “Lorrie,” her mother would scold, “you are never happy with anything. You are such a whiner. You’re […]