HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR WILLPOWER The chocolate cake or the apple? Staying in bed or going to the gym? Watching another YouTube video or focusing on your work? Spending or saving? Every day, all day, choices challenge your willpower: the ability to exercise self-control when you need it. The problem is that sometimes [...]
IS THERE ROOM IN YOUR HEART FOR HIM? Is it possible that the safest place to hide from God is in church? “In costly dwellings and splendid churches, the rich shut themselves away from the poor” (The Desire of Ages, pg. 639). Yet, Immanuel, God with us, always had His heart open to [...]
RESCUED“My father described it to me this way,” Mathew Feeley explains, “’The box was full, and one day I came back, and the box was empty. There was nothing left.’ Our family lost everything, and we ended up in Toronto metro housing, where I was born, the youngest of six in Kingston-Galloway, Scarborough, Ontario. [...]
ONE THING I DESIRE “If you could ask God for one thing, what would it be?” My mind seriously mused over the question. As Mike and I ran into our local Costco, seeking shelter from the sweltering summer sun, the thought kept bouncing around my brain: “If you could ask God for one [...]
THE BENEFITS OF SINGING SCRIPTURE “One time, Dad took me to a string quartet concert, and I remember we had a really close seat, right up at the front, and I just loved it… When we were driving home, I said to my dad, ‘You know what, Dad, I really [...]
STAR POWER “I am the product of persistence. Legend has it…my father was driving down the street on the island of Montreal, and he saw this beautiful lady walking down the street…he pulled over, asked her if she wanted a ride, and she said no, so he drove away, but he [...]
FROM DISCONNECTED TO VITALLY CONNECTED “When my parents divorced, my mother sent me to an Adventist school, and our church family took very good care of us.” Amber Andrews remembers how the good times outweighed the bad during her early childhood years. “I was a tom boy, had a horse, [...]
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS “Many years ago, back in Ukraine, from a basket on a shelf, my grandfather watched the blood drain from her face as his mother died giving birth.” Murray Sankey recalled the story of the trauma his grandfather endured, which eventually stirred him to flee to Canada. “Not long after [...]
COMING HOME “My story is a point of reference, not a residence,” Jerry Shiel clarifies. “He never shouted at us or ever swore, but he believed in corporal punishment,” Jerry recalls. “I didn’t like it when my dad took out the strap. As a young boy, I just wanted him to get to know [...]
JESUS HAS OUR BACK BEFORE WE THINK WE NEED HIM “It was a normal morning. The kids were jumping on our bed,” Tammy Hebert recalls, “so when I walked into Kienan’s bedroom and couldn’t find him, I checked every place in the house I thought a three-year-old would hide. My heart started racing; we [...]
