When You Feel Like Candy Corn
 Be honest: candy corn—love it or “melted traffic cones”? It’s one of the most polarizing candies on earth. Some states cheer it on; others form support groups to avoid it. Either way, candy corn knows rejection. So do we. Jesus did too. John writes, “He came to his own, and his own did not receive him” (John 1:11). That stings. One Hebrew word for rejection, zanach, literally means “to stink.” When people pass us by, we start doing the sniff tes

"No Trespassing” Signs Don’t Scare Jesus We’ve all seen the signs: 'No Trespassing.' Do not enter. My favorites: “We’re tired of hiding...

From Hiding to Healing As kids, most of us slept with night-lights and monster inspections. (For the record, 80% of kids fear the dark....

Were you afraid of the dark as a kid? Night-lights glowing, parents checking closets, maybe even a monster under the bed. Studies say...