OPINION April 21, 2019 Christen Limbaugh Bloom: Committing your life to Jesus shouldn’t intimidate you – here’s WHY Have you ever thought to yourself, “One day I’ll really commit to living the Christian lifestyle, but I’m just not ready for that yet?” I grew up learning about Jesus and His sacrifice, but believing and living out my beliefs were different things. When I went away to college I started building walls around my heart, with very REAL feelings of guilt, shame, and rebellion.
OPINION April 20, 2019 Krauthammer: Tiger Woods illustrates the distance between a sport's best and the rest My father, Charles Krauthammer, was a lover of sports. Not just for the sheer joy of the games themselves, but for what they revealed about an essential aspect of the human experience: our capacity and drive to achieve excellence.
OPINION April 20, 2019 John Paine: How a 17-year battle with ALS led me closer to God As we near the month of May, encouraging our reflection and recognition of those suffering from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, for National ALS Awareness Month, author John Paine shares his emotional journey through diagnosis of the disease and the following 17 years, eventually coming to see himself as the “luckiest man.”
Faith April 20, 2019 Joshua Rogers: On Easter, two words you can say to Jesus I was only 5 when I walked into my mother's bedroom and told her I wanted to give my life to Christ.
OPINION April 15, 2019 Rick McDaniel: Tiger Woods’ major comeback – this is how he did it Tiger Woods is a major champion again. Not since the U.S. Open in 2008 had Tiger won one of the four major golf tournaments. He had a drought of 11 long years. But all that ended on Sunday when he won the Masters.
OPINION April 14, 2019 Paul Batura: How 23 failures led me to winning at the Boston Marathon Monday’s Boston Marathon marks the 122nd iteration of the world’s oldest annual 26.2-mile footrace. Over 32,000 athletes will compete in this year’s edition, each one having qualified by finishing another race in a specified time based upon gender and age.
OPINION April 14, 2019 Christen Limbaugh Bloom: How to transform your season of loneliness into an amazing experience From the moment I accepted my first job in New York, I was bursting with eagerness to arrive in this vibrant city. I had dreamt of living here my entire life and could not have been more excited to start a new season of endless possibilities.
OPINION April 13, 2019 Ty Pennington: Growing up with ADHD and that time my mom discovered I was the worst kid at my school There’s a loud ringing in my head that’s not caused by distant mortars, but rather a more immediate deafening sound.
OPINION April 9, 2019 Rick McDaniel: UVA went from worst to first – Here’s how to overcome a setback A year ago, the UVA basketball team suffered the worst loss in NCAA Tournament history. They were the first number one seed ever to lose to a number 16 seed. UVA was bounced out of the Tournament in the very first round.
OPINION April 7, 2019 Christen Limbaugh Bloom: Is your guilt causing you to avoid God? You need to know THIS Have you ever felt like you’re praying on autopilot? By that I mean every time you pray, you repeat the same pattern: you confess a few sins, ask for vague, overarching wishes like world peace, comfort for the sick and protection for your loved ones and then you go to bed. Sound familiar?
OPINION April 7, 2019 Jason Wright: This woman bought groceries and prevented a suicide Brenda Walker, a caregiver in Danville, Virginia, had survived another exhausting day at work. Like most of us at the end of another long slog, Walker had just one thought: Walk in the front door and collapse.