Category: Ponder
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Can an Artificial Intelligence pray blessings over a human?
Story by Randy Grathen. While browsing Facebook reels, I encountered an AI video of a little doe-eyed girl asking me to share her prayer of blessing over my family and friends. I almost did. But then… In the bible we are advised to pray “without ceasing” (1st Thessalonians 5:17), “at all times” (Ephesians 6:18), and “always” Read more
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Radically saved by Jesus.
Story by Koryssa McCarty. Less than three years ago I was consumed in the New Age movement. Not only that, I was also participating in rituals and spell work. I was deeply consumed in crystals and crystal healing. Back in 2013 I had started taking classes to become a certified crystal therapist. Involved with that Read more
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Test me in this, says the Lord.
Story by Kristine Barnes. My dad was frugal. He grew up in the Depression Era with a deceased father and 10 siblings. Dad was on his own from age 12. He and our mom had seven kids, I am the eldest. Dad was the Appliance Manager at Sears while Mom stayed home with all of Read more
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Packer Football & Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Story by Randy Grathen. When God Takes Something Away – don’t go looking for it again. I grew up in Green Bay Wisconsin just six blocks from the Packer Stadium. Two of my dad’s brothers also lived in Green Bay near the stadium so every Sunday, when there was a home game, they took turns Read more
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What Is This Doing Here?
(Deuteronomy 14 verses 23-26). Story by Linda Schnepel. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com. In the midst of all the rules God gave Moses to pass on to the Israelites is one that seems so out of place as to rock everything I thought I knew about tithing. We all know Malachi 3 verses 8-10 where God Read more
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Are You a Pollyanna or Missus Snow?
Story by Kristine Barnes. In 1960 there was a movie, based on a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H Porter, about a young girl who had a habit of finding the good in every situation. She was a “glass-half-full” kind of girl. Or was that half-empty? That analogy has never made sense to me. Whether Read more
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So Hard to Believe.
Story by Scotty Gray. I was just thinking…about believing in God. Growing up in the U S in the 1960s meant that you probably lived the “Leave It To Beaver” life. You know; dad worked a blue or white collar job during the weekdays, with plenty of time on the weekends for household projects, leisure Read more
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Who is Your Neighbor?
Story by Debbie Wuthnow. Our nation has endured a cluster of horrific homicides, leading headlines in the past few months of 2025. In addition to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there’s been the brutal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska while riding home from work on public transit in Charlotte, NC, and the Minneapolis school Read more
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The Illusion of Free Will.
Story by Randy Grathen. Are we free to choose our path in life, or has God already laid out a course for us and we are just along for the ride? Are the choices we make our own, or does God orchestrate a set of circumstances that move us to make a decision that matches Read more
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Road trip like Christian walk.
Journey to Wisconsin in our Red Cadillac. Story by Kristine Barnes. When I take a long road trip, with a specific destination, like a 20-hour drive to Wisconsin in the Fall, I am not where I want to be, but I’m on my way. My current location is only temporary. As I travel, I don’t Read more