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‘The desert…will blossom’ (Is. 35:1).   Between a garden profuse with exotically colored peonies and a houseful of saints celebrating...

Amanda and Rich invited us into their relationship last year when they married. Today they update us on their life together. Looking...

While the Midwest froze, Desert Stream glimpsed an early Spring at our Living Waters Training in London last week. Seeds sown and tended...

Ania and I just celebrated our second wedding anniversary on December 17. Freed (respectively) from the domination of sexual abuse and...

Bridging the Divide              ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    Elections are always polarizing. Still, I...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

‘Something is true not because the Church teaches it. The Church teaches something because it is true,’ as quoted by Fr. Paul Check. A...

‘To recover the true sense of the spiritual, we must rediscover the mystery of the material…It may be our failure to enter deeply and...

I Will Arise ‘Weary and weak—accept my weariness. Weary and weak and downcast in soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

‘Is it a time for you to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains in ruins? Go…and build the house, so that I may take...

Editor’s Note: Annette wrote this year-end piece about wounded systems and symptoms. I loved it and thought it worth repeating. What is...

Rousing Her Gently, Firmly ‘Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for Her, to make Her holy,...

Blazing ‘I am not afraid. God is with me. He made me for this.’ - Joan of Arc ‘I have come to set the world on fire, and how I wish it...

Living Truth ‘You are Peter, and on this Rock, I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.’ (Matt. 16:18)....

The Child is a Warrior ‘I have quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me' (Ps....