Welcome to our original blog! As of 2022, our current blog, Words of Grace, is hosted on Substack. We hope you are encouraged by our posts from 2017-2021.
Three Things I’ve Learned as a Volunteer Counselor
-This week on the Grace blog, James Zilenziger is guest posting about his experiences as a volunteer peer counselor at Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center. I sat across from Nick* and Jackie* in our private counseling room and muttered a prayer in my head as our...
A Story Realized on a Softball Field
When will I stop this endless effort of building a perception that "all is well in my life"? It's an act I've grown accustomed to and have a hard time imagining what my life would look like without it. What's the point anyway? To impress others and put off the false...
The Glorious Joy of Praising God in Defeat
This past Monday night, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of college athletes within the Athlete Intervaristy group of my alma mater, TCNJ, on the topic “How to Find and Praise God in Defeat”. My guess is if they all knew the topic I was assigned ahead of...