I stood nervously in front of the microphone, trying to smile at the audience of forty teen girls who were sitting at…
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The Yes Woman
I recently had a very busy week full of coffee dates, client meetings, meals with lovely people in our…
Courage to Stand
On a crisp April morning, twenty-seven-year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat pensively in his bedroom at his…
Cultivating True Courage
When the famous missionary Mary Slessor was a young woman in Scotland, she was faced with a life-changing test of…
Victory in Difficult Circumstances
Jackie Pullinger, a long-time missionary to China, spoke about sharing the Gospel with a woman who had been a…
Resisting the Enemy
As I’ve studied the lives of many great Christian women throughout the centuries, I’ve noticed that many of them had…
Gladys Aylward
God’s dreamers are always impractical — but in the end, some of their dreams come true.-Amy CarmichaelAbout seven…
Clinging to the Cross
When my husband Eric was in his early twenties, he went on a mission trip to inner city New Orleans. One night his…