NIKI FLORICA

I'm usually pretty good at laughing at myself. You know, when the stakes are low. When things get stressful, though, and nobody else is...

Anyone who's watched High School Musical or the Teen Beach Movie or any such Disneylicious teen drama know that at some point or another,...

So, I could write an entire post on the ups and downs of 2020 and its multiple dimensions of weird/difficult/sobering/painful/illuminatin...

The past couple years have been hard for me. I'm sure they've been hard for you, too. We're all going through something, hiding it behind "o

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

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...

In the past, I've been pretty quick to judge the disciples for their lack of faith throughout the gospels. I mean, as Christians of...

I'm fascinated by the concept of ancient prophets. Men and women selected by God to be the mouthpieces of divine messages—often outcast...

In sifting through ideas for today's snowy Saturday Spotlight, I couldn't seem to decide on one that befit the theme of the season. With...

At the start of the semester, a friend of mine took the initiative to resurrect a Christian club at our high school from a group that had...

Sometimes answers come slowly, through doubt, like an ice-blurred windowpane that melts into clarity one steady droplet at a time. We...

It's always been a tendency of mine to lapse into perfectionist habits, but the grade-pressure of senior year has hardly improved the...

Sometimes when the hectic pace of life kicks up a notch, it's the most fundamental things that get abandoned first. Take cleaning for...

One temptation that seems prevalent in our luxury-cushioned first-world is the urge to dwell on ourselves. Whether it's that nagging...

Today I'm thanking God for the faithful men and women who face the fiercest spiritual warfare on the mission field each day. Missionaries...

When years ago I imagined myself as a career novelist, I had a clear purpose in mind. I knew that God had given me a passion for writing...

Sometimes people come into our lives and rest on our hearts like a burden. It's not that they need Christ more than anyone else we meet,...