Category: Challenge Central

My Temple

By: Ed Sywyk   I love Jesus with all my heart and I make Him first in my life, but I also have a strong desire to eat. I don’t see this as gluttony, but as something that makes me feel good. I was told by a friend, “some people eat to live, but you […]

God is Ever Good

By: Lynette Bloedow   “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17 (ESV) “See the  morning sunbeam lighting up the wood, Silently professing,’God is ever good, God is ever good.” I come from […]

Run to the Garden

By: Casey Korstanje   Ah, New Year.    The mind turns immediately to resolutions. Things you vow finally to do this year. Things you promise yourself you’ll stop doing. Secret sins to repent, diets to follow, exercise to take, sloth to chase away. Excellent! There’s nothing wrong with introspection or changing the things you want to […]

Two Roads

By: Alissa Cooper   This road. This festive bedazzled road looks all too familiar. It blares at you as you approach it, a curiosity. Not this time. I won’t do it this time, you say trying to convince yourself and yet it only takes a brief moment to pull you in.    Perhaps it is […]

A Reflection on Christ, the True Light

By: Jason Coutts   “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?  For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” Matt 2:2 (ESV)    Men are naturally drawn to the light. It fixes their vision, preserves them from harm, and directs their paths. Light can arise […]