Stories

From Denying To Following: What Happens When You Ask God To Reveal Himself

From Denying To Following: What Happens When You Ask God To Reveal Himself

Will Likins doesn’t do anything halfway, so he didn’t just walk away from religion, he ran.

The young boy who had grown up going to chur...

Read More
All In: Finding My Security In Him

All In: Finding My Security In Him

As a preteen, I enjoyed going quail hunting. I would sometimes come to a barbed-wire fence I had to cross. Some were tightly strung between the ...

Read More
GriefShare: Where To Turn When You’ve Lost Someone You Love

GriefShare: Where To Turn When You’ve Lost Someone You Love

When Katherine Jarvis’ husband died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm two years ago, she lost the man who, after 36 years of marriage, could fi...

Read More
Running From God? Don't Miss Jonah

Running From God? Don't Miss Jonah

As I dove into the book of Jonah alongside the women in my Crash community, something quickly b...

Read More
Jonah: I Told You So

Jonah: I Told You So

“I really, really hope somebody was standing on the beach when Jonah came flying out of the whale. Imagine telling THAT story for the rest o...

Read More
Scary. Awesome. When You Know Baptism Is Your Next Step.

Scary. Awesome. When You Know Baptism Is Your Next Step.

Amy and Christian Snead’s second visit to Blue Ridge happened on a Baptism Sunday.

“It totally blew our minds,” Amy remembered.

...

Read More
Resting In His Grace In The Midst Of Cancer

Resting In His Grace In The Midst Of Cancer

Kelly Whitmore introduces her new blog this way:

Hi! My name is Kelly, I am twenty-nine years old, I love Jesus, and I have a very r...

Read More
What I’ve Learned From Serving In The High School Ministry

What I’ve Learned From Serving In The High School Ministry

I met Christian at Mr. Goodies for a High School Ministry function. He was cold and wore a chip on his shoulder like steel plate armor. I looked...

Read More
For Better, For Worse: A Story of Forgiveness And Hope

For Better, For Worse: A Story of Forgiveness And Hope

Michael and Keisha Queen love God, each other and their three beautiful children.

But there was a time, just a few years ago, when their...

Read More
Real Life, Real Friends, Real Jesus

Real Life, Real Friends, Real Jesus

Like many couples, we didn’t give much thought on our wedding day to the hard times to come. We weren’t naive enough to think that everything wo...

Read More
Discovering Jehovah Jireh

Discovering Jehovah Jireh

Last winter, Michelle Mathia got a front-row seat to see God as Jehovah Jireh, Provider.

When she first saw the email about Blue Ridge o...

Read More
Tough Conversations: Wounded By Sex

Tough Conversations: Wounded By Sex

This week’s message addresses the pain of being hurt, even devastated, by a misuse of sex. This is a real issue for so many people. Here, Sh...

Read More