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Poems by Lydia Kinne Find more of Lydia’s poetry based on 1 John here and at ...

Poetry by Lydia Kinne God himself wrote poetry. It’s found in the Psalms and woven throughout the Scripture, and we can reflect his image in our own creativity. Lydia Kinne’s poetic meditations from 1 John e...

About two and a half years ago, after Sunday service, Stacy Ott and several other Faith Bible Church ladies were discussing their love for reading. While Christian books on spiritual growth topics are valuable reading, their shared love was for li...

For moms, life can simultaneously feel like a roller coaster and a slow walk through the park. MomLife was launched nearly ten years ago to support moms through the overwhelming toddler years. For years, MomLife met once a mo...

A couple years ago, part of my pre-lit Christmas tree went dark, leaving my cozy view looking a little stark. I felt embarrassed about taking a picture of it—it wasn’t the perfectly beautiful Christmas tree that I’ve put up every year and co...

Our nation is in a fragile state right now. The amount of anger, hate, destruction, hurt, and controversy swirling around is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. The issues at hand are emotional ones for sure – how can they not be when yo...

They were just barely graduated from high school, but they were in love and happy as can be – spending all their time together and neglecting all other relationships – so of course why wouldn’t they get married? He said he just wasn�...

A Poem by Lydia Kinne Don’t stop fighting – Even if you feel like The most broken soul That ever was. Don’t stop gripping onTo fragile hope, Its flame feebly flickering...

The season of celebrating is almost upon us – and for a little more than a month – from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve – we will start seeing the surge of “picture-perfect” family moments on social media. The Thanksgiving din...

Palm fronds rustled in the breeze. Dust swirled up from the dirt road as people flung down their coats to make a carpet. An air of expectancy hung around everyone as they strained to be the first to see their visitor. And then came the ho...

A Poem by Lydia KinneThey had waited. Through four hundred years of deafening silence. A weary nation under Roman rule - Hoping for light to break through the darkness that surrounded them.  She w...

Do you feel like the small things have become overwhelming? Tedious? Frustrating? Do you feel tired of the never-ending cycle of dirty dishes, dirty laundry, dirty cars … dirty attitudes? ...

The sun hid her face at noonday that Friday so long ago … for the Son, the Light of the world was about to be extinguished. Darkness fell across the land, mirroring the darkest battle in all of history – the most shocking transaction in t...

Two days after I had my heart broken, many years ago, I typed these words into my computer journal: “The world is frost-bitten today. It feels kind of like my heart, I’d imagine. Numb, frozen … life hidden behind the death that has ...