God is faithful and He is good. He wants us to enjoy our earthly lives that He has given us. He wants to surprise us, where one day we may walk into something new, thinking it will be the same of what we had before, but maybe slightly better, and BOOM! - God has given us something far more than we could have ever asked for or imagined. 

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a Amanda Lindhout, whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.  

In this interview, listen to how 18 year old Thomasena has built a business, how she loves God and relies on Him to lead her, how she has faced setbacks and has risen, and she gives advice to those who want to go into business. 

One thing I realized about God is that He’s all about process. More often than not, God, thousands of years ago, and God in 2016 is a God of process. Sometimes He does things quickly, like the waving of a wand- abracadabra and POOF- it’s done and fast. But when He decides to mold and make our characters, the things we want can take weeks, months or years.

I’ve got one and you’ve got one- a conscience. That thing that jerks us back when we do wrong, and that that gives our hearts peace when we’ve made the right decision...

Blogger, Laura Saxby profiles one of the most famous names in fashion, Gabrielle Chanel, a style icon who paved the way for designers throughout time and is known as the greatest fashion designer who ever lived.

We all have seasons in our lives where some are more challenging than others, but challenges are meant to increase our faith in God, mature us, strengthen us, and make us wiser. God doesn’t intend for us to stay stuck in a season. He’s the only One that’s meant to stay the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. But we’re meant to morph and grow as He moves us from season to season. However, it is possible that we can stay stuck in a season for far too long, longer than God intended us, if we choose to.

Christina Miles is the Owner and Creator of Bruges Chocolaterie in Columbia, South Carolina. She creates hand-painted and handcrafted small batched artisan chocolate barks, chocolate truffles, and chocolate pastries. Trained in the U.S., Europe, and Morocco, Christina has brought her culinary and restaurant management skills to the American South but in the form of chocolate. 

Lysa TerKeurst unpacks how rejections of our past affect us more than we realize. All of us are either trying to heal a past rejection, deal with a present rejection or fear that an unexpected rejection is just around the corner. And that’s exactly why she wrote Uninvited.

There are seasons in life when we’re in the unexplainable, where we’re being pressed, where situation after situation that comes makes us exhausted, and where we can’t understand why we’re being pressed on every side.

Elisa is an actress, model, documentary filmmaker, social entrepreneur and philanthropist. 

Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. Where the Light Gets In tells the full story of her mother Linda's struggle with Primary Progressive Aphasia—from her early-onset diagnosis through the present day. 

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

~Dale Carnegie

It’s exhausting to try and please other people and what they think we should do or not do. And even though their advice may come from a good place, we will only find freedom through seeking to please God above all else.

What is the foundation of Christianity? What does it mean to be a follower of Christ? If I may, I’d like to answer. It is love, and it means to love as Christ loved. 

Victoria has been a documentary filmmaker for most of her career. She’s half American, having gone to Harvard University, but she lives in the UK with her husband and daughter. Now she’s heading up a chapter of Global Girl Media in London.

Just because we’re in a situation that seems good and that seems ok doesn’t mean it is ok. The Scripture is full of examples where people thought they were ok, despite their unholy living.

Kate Petrova is a Russian world traveler, photographer, global citizen, and businesswoman.