Born in India, Sioni immigrated to Costa Rica when she was five years old. Raised in poverty by alcoholic parents, she suffered harsh and frequent physical abuse, but it didn’t compare to the horrors of the sexual abuse that started after toddlerhood.
Today the world is steeped in darkness, filled with stumbling blocks of sin, trouble, and confusion. In times like these, we need to make sure we become like living flashlights, meaning that the light of God's presence is shining in and through us. Romans 12:11 can be summed up this way: Never let the fire in your heart go out. Keep it alive. Serve the Lord.
by Linda Evans Shepherd Picture the disciples, lingering in Jerusalem as Jesus instructed. Fresh from the Resurrection, Jesus had spent forty days with them, unveiling how the law of Moses,…
Linda Evans Shepherd The broken woman who stood before me said, “But I’ve prayed to forgive, but my feelings of bitterness always return.” This woman had just heard me tell…
The lady behind the airline counter looked as if she couldn’t have cared less. I was at the airline’s special help desk, holding my airline confirmation email for a flight now leaving in forty minutes.
The plane continued to sputter. I stared at the earth below and asked my husband, “Where are we going to land?
Linda Evans Shepherd Is it possible to rise above circumstances you can’t change? It is when you serve a God Whose Kingdom is not subject to the cares of this…
by Linda Evans Shepherd in Leading Hearts magazine I love to send prayers into my multiple social media accounts so that my friends can pray along with me. My prayers…
by Linda Evans Shepherd in Leading Hearts Magazine
Considering that the world is in the panic of a pandemic, I’m want to share a prayer initially intended for a book called Praying Through Your Every Emotion, soon to release from Baker Revell. This book will be a dictionary of emotions complete with a mini-Bible study and accompanied by a paraphrased prayer to correspond with each of the 64 emotions I cover inside the book.
Here’s one I can share with you now, a prayer about the emotion ‘PANIC.’
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Are you caught in the stir-crazy of crisis? Is being stuck inside getting too much to bear? One of the best things we can do in times of crisis is…