NIKI FLORICA

There's a quote in the film, God's Not Dead: "It's not easy, but it's simple." The "it," if I remember correctly, refers to doing the...

Christianity asks us to do a really hard thing when it comes to how we feel about ourselves. On one hand, we need to be brutally honest....

I talked last week about the human will. Well, I'm still talking about it. In Luke 18, Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. It was near the end of...

Good ol' I Corinthians 13. Short and sweet and sharp as a dagger. Love is patient, love is kind, love doesn't envy, think highly of...

When you stop to count them, a TON of spiritual traits boil down to good ol' fashioned acts of will. Prayerfulness. Forgiveness....

I can happily say that my new favourite show is officially The Chosen—not only marked by quality acting, sweet costumes, killer...

Squirrels get a bad rap. I know from experience—watching my family's ongoing bird-feeder vs. squirrel feud of feuds—but I can't help...

I don't abide by everything in my psychology course, but here's a fun fact (at least as I understand it): between ages 15 and 25, the...

I think it's fairly safe to say that we've all had expectations drenched in a cold wave of reality. Human beings are creative. We're...

It's National Novel Writing Month, and I'm a roiling blend of nerves and excitement and dreams of a finished product by the end of one...

One of my favourite verses in the New Testament is: "The one who endures to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:14) Not because it's...

While sifting through blog ideas this morning, I came across one line in my daily devotion and knew I had found my Monday Musing....

There is something so nostalgic about snail mail. A couple days ago, I received a card in the mail from a friend, and it just infused my...

When time slows down, it gives us a breath to slow down with it and savour our circumstances. To look at the little things and see what...

"Waiting" carries so many connotations—tension, expectation, worry, time, patience, impatience, hope, fear—but if we're being completely...

Jesus ... can take the tattered scraps of truth we brought to that flopped conversation, and use them to plant a seed in that person ...

Failure is one of the most unpleasant phenomenons to grip our world since Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden. Whether magnanimous...

When we travel, we tend to plan. That's just good old-fashioned thinking ahead. We may not know exactly what each leg of the journey will...

The book of Numbers tells us that Moses was extremely humble, "more humble than any other person on earth in his time" (Num. 12:3) in his...

It's one thing to be convicted and motivated by a devotion. It's quite another to seize that conviction and follow through when the...