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Thank God every day that you live in America. Recently, as I reread my father’s letters to my mom from southeast Asia in the 1960s, I noticed his commentary on the poverty, squalid living [...]

“White trash.” That’s what she said. That’s what my friend heard. A close friend told me about a recent conversation with her friend during which her friend called herself [...]

BIRTHING BABIES Subtitled My Stories and I Lived to Tell Them! While in Pennsylvania (I’m from SC) in early December, I sat reminiscing about all nine of my deliveries with my second [...]

“But Samson did not know that the Lord had left him,” says Judges 16:20. This is one of the saddest verses in all of scripture. God’s chosen man started well but ended poorly. [...]

When I was growing up in our small town of Manning, South Carolina, my dad would come home many afternoons from work and throw the football or baseball with me in the back yard. He was Terry [...]

-From Robert When I was in college, I worked a summer job in Panama City Beach, Florida, where I attended a church for about ten weeks. The church had a dinner on the grounds one Sunday after [...]

 From Rob-      I  had  the  privilege  of  being  the  second  Jackson  child  to  attend  the  School  Of Discipleship  at  Miracle Mountain  Ranch  after  my  sister  Hannah.  Out  of  the [...]

Four times in four separate autumns with four different children, we made a twelve-hour pilgrimage to tiny Spring Creek, Pennsylvania – two hours from Niagara Falls, one hour from Lake [...]

– from Carlotta Jackson This  happened  during  my  first  trip  to  India.  The  Indian  leader  of  our  trip  took  our   little  group  of  Americans  to  a  small  concrete  room [...]

So many poignant pictures of first responders and victims are on my phone and television today as we once again remember 9/11. So many memorable pictures have come out of Texas following [...]