by Nate Stevens | Jun 21, 2022 | Encouragement, Short Story
(A short story about purpose, transformation, and never settling.) The butterfly was terrified. Hurting, hungry, alone, and now captured, she wondered, “What happened to me? How did I end up like this? I never thought this could happen to me.” The Enchanted Forest The...
by Nate Stevens | Sep 26, 2016 | Christian Living
May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your purpose [Psalm 20:4]. At some time in our lives, we all struggle with identifying, then following, God’s purpose. After all, it involves two basic, unnerving questions: Who am I and why am I here?...
by Nate Stevens | Aug 22, 2014 | Encouragement
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows (or soup!) [Matthew 10:29, 31 / NIV, parenthesis added]. There’s more value in alphabet...
by Nate Stevens | Oct 10, 2013 | Encouragement
Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. (Isaiah 49:1) “He knows my name!” Recently I heard a story how a celebrity befriended a young disabled girl. Her parents wrote him telling of her situation and incredible fondness for...
by Nate Stevens | Nov 19, 2009 | Encouragement
But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or...
