Every heart has something to forgive. Whether it’s a minor slight or a life-altering betrayal, unresolved pain can leave us trapped in unseen chains of resentment, bitterness, and emotional wounds. These invisible bonds impact every part of our lives, blocking the peace, joy, and freedom we’re meant to experience. In Something to Forgive , Kathleen Johnson shines a light on these hidden struggles, offering a compassionate, practical guide to breaking free. Drawing on her personal journey, biblical wisdom, and insights from neuroscience and modern medicine, Johnson reveals how...
Posted by Kathleen Johnson on 11/21/2024
Life on Earth can indeed be full of those “things that ail us,” but many of the endless quick hits for a fix that are constantly offered up are mere placebos, putting us on more of a “deathbed of data” than a road to recovery. But there is a real “prescription” for the suffering and challenges we face on a daily basis. That prescription can be found in the Scriptures; the Word of God. This book will help you drop your excuses and find your answers, get rid of your loneliness and find God's love. This is your answer for removing anxiety and...
Posted by Katherine Norland on 06/19/2024
Stop Building Other People's Dreams and Sabotaging Your Own So You Can Step into Your Calling and Live Your Purpose with Confidence. Discover Your Value * Learn to Love Yourself * Finally Know You Matter * Are you tired of suffering through life and being at war with yourself? Or feeling that others were more qualified, beautiful, or blessed than you? Have you ever wondered how you could possibly achieve your dreams when you don’t feel like you’re enough? If so, that stops today. In this book you will: * Be able to see yourself and love yourself the way...
Posted by Katherine Norland on 04/08/2024
If God is good, why does He allow evil and suffering? How can we reconcile a good God and the present existence of evil that we see around us? These questions are less about the evil that inhibits the earth and more about the kind of God who allows it to exist and continue. In many ways, when people ask these questions, they are saying to God, “How could You? How dare You? Why would You allow this to happen?” With all the evil in the world, it’s easy to find someone to blame for suffering. Yet, the world that we see, with all its suffering and evil has an explanation. In...
Posted by Lora Ziebro on 01/11/2024
In this ten-minute video, Maribeth shares her faith journey through the separate losses of two of her children, one at the age of 14, and the other at the age of 21. She also speaks of her alcoholism and how Christ freed her. ...
Posted by Maribeth Ditmars on 08/11/2023
Pain and suffering in our lives do not equal a lack of love from God. Instead, they reveal, at the right time, a divine and perfect purpose packed with love. Are you searching for hope amidst a trial? Beauty Beyond the Thorns offers a transformative perspective on where it can be found. Darci weaves biblical stories with modern-day stories, including her arduous journey through chronic pain, to demonstrate how God can turn life’s unexpected curveballs into victorious home runs. This is a story about the upside of suffering. In Beauty Beyond the Thorns, you will learn: Suggestions...
Posted by Darci Steiner on 08/06/2022
Beauty Beyond the Thorns Study Guide: Discovering Gifts in Suffering is a companion to the book, Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering. In this study guide, you will be led to write about your journey of suffering so that you can find the beauty often hidden behind hardship. Each chapter draws information from the book, encouraging you to personalize its teachings so you not only read stories of healing, but you also experience personal healing. Study Guide for Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering is a study guide...
Posted by Darci Steiner on 08/06/2022
If you are experiencing a season of suffering, you will find hope, humor, and healing throughout the pages of Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering . Modern-day stories of suffering are paralleled with biblical accounts that will both enrich your understanding of the Bible and provide hope for your personal journey. We all need healing, whether experiencing physical or emotional pain from the thorns of divorce, job loss, grief, addiction, disability, or financial troubles. When we follow Jesus, God offers us gifts such as joy, hope, compassion, and mercy to help us...
Posted by Darci Steiner on 10/30/2021
During this interview with Marnie, Maribeth will share some of her favorite AHA insights including the stories behind: • Laughter and tears are only a moment apart, but joy is eternal. • When we allow God to use us, our suffering becomes sacred. • For us to understand the Lord’s ways, would be like teaching a dog algebra. • We don’t remember days and weeks, we remember moments. • When we allow our grief to be pushed aside, anger replaces it. • Sometimes my life felt like I was stepping on Legos and I couldn’t find the light switch. •...
Posted by Maribeth Ditmars on 08/03/2021
Jesus said in John 16:33, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (ESV). We may think when we are suffering that God has abandoned us or is trying to "punish" us. But nothing could be further from the truth! God wants to develop important character traits in us, one of them being the beautiful gift of perseverance. If we're willing to open our hearts to what He has to teach us in our trials, we can better understand their value, experience peace in the midst of...
Posted by Jennifer Cadamore on 06/29/2021
Train to Reign: Living Your True Identity with Victory & Authority. During this session with Marnie and guest, Holly LaChappell, you’ll discover: Why DIY behavior modification doesn’t work and what to do about it.The most important aspect of your relationship with Jesus—and it’s not about performance. How to be a life catcher and a life giver, and the #1 reason you must act now. Your own Suffering-Coping Personality and the biggest mistakes we make emotionally, and how to avoid it. 6 simple strategies to grow your faith, courage, resiliency, self-control,...
Posted by Holly LaChappell on 06/11/2021
Kristin is a contributing author to the new She Writes for Him: Stories of Resilient Faith. It’s not often we speak about abortion, shame, betrayal, depression, anxiety, and loss in our circles of faith. It can be uncomfortable as we try to reconcile why a good God allows suffering and pain. Life is messy, and yet we need not silence these stories. She Writes For Him: Stories of Resilient Faith is written by brave women who have boldly ventured out to tell their hard stories. These resilient women have found that God can be trusted in the midst of difficult and tragic circumstances. They...
Posted by Kristin Clouse on 05/07/2020
