After the cold, dark months of Winter, the first flowers that peep out from the frosty ground are welcomed as a sign that warmer weather is on its way. The season of Spring is named for the action of plants appearing and shooting up from the earth. Of course, it’s not just vegetation that springs…
On 4 June, 2016, 14-year-old Ashley Jones was riding shotgun in an all-terrain vehicle, in the mountains of Colorado. The ground was muddy from the previous night’s rain, so when the ATV took a turn too fast, the wheels lost traction, and the vehicle flipped over onto its right side. As she fell, Ashley instinctively…
You’d think the chance to audition for one of the biggest Christian bands in the world would be super exciting. But when 17-year-old Jen Ledger got the chance to play with Skillet, she just felt terrified. ‘I honestly couldn’t think of anything worse,’ she told Alex when they caught up recently. ‘It was so intimidating…
Part of having faith is knowing that God has a plan for each of us. But we also know that sometimes we can’t know how that plan will play out. Sometimes God plays the long game. When Tim Bisagno was ten years old, a visitor said that if, later in life, he was struggling, he…