Esther McIlveen’s nostalgic article reminds us how the example of a godly parent is an ongoing encouragement to live wholesomely in challenging circumstances. … Read more
Embracing Your Personal Journey
By Esther McIlveen. In a world that is changing and inconstant, knowing that we have been given a divine destiny for our special journey, is both crucial and deeply reassuring. Our heart's desire is often a clue, because chances are those things we deeply desire is where our vocation lies. … Read more
Rainbows and Worn-out Shoes
By Esther McIlveen. Margaret Avison loved and understood the characters at Evangel Hall, an inner city mission run by Knox Presbyterian Church on Spadina Ave. in Toronto Ontario, with about 100 single men. She identified with their poverty, mental illness and aloneness. … Read more
Write a Letter
By Esther Mcllveen. The new year is an ideal time to take pen and paper and let your mind flash back to early beginnings and refresh the person or persons whom God used in your life. … Read more
Bury the Hatchet
By Esther Mcllveen. This article imagines what it would have been like for Philemon to first read Paul’s letter to him. Put yourself in his place. … Read more
Prayer Helps to Keep the Bloom in Marriage
By Esther Mcllveen. Prayer enhances marriage tremendously. Praying together provides intimacy and affects physical, psychological and spiritual closeness. … Read more
Encouragement – The Essence That Gives Us Buoyancy
By Esther Mcllveen. Children and adults alike blossom and grow when the atmosphere is full of encouragement — when we determine to seek to draw forth each other’s gifts and delight in them. … Read more
Contemplating Our Place in Heaven
By Esther McIlveen. A few summers ago in a creative writing workshop a group of us experienced the electrifying results that can happen when the reality of heaven comes alive. … Read more
Tithing – a Spring-board to Generosity
By Esther Mcllveen. Tithing is both the wisest investment of our money, as well as a command first given to the Children of Israel. Tithing was not just a requirement of the wealthy, for in Exodus the “poor were instructed not to give less.” Tithing was to become the norm for all the children of God. … Read more
Tears – A gift for the Church?
By Esther Mcllveen. If God thinks our tears are significant enough to bottle them and holds them in such high regard, we in the church should ask for the gift of tears. We may find ourselves weeping over our city – as Jesus wept over Jerusalem – due to the host of ills which exist. … Read more
What Does Revival Look Like?
By Esther Mcllveen. Usually revival is mentioned in connection with the church. I wonder if God is saying to us, “Your emphasis is in the wrong place. Try the home.” … Read more
The Two M’s Living Inside Us
By Esther Mcllveen. The story of the two sisters – Mary and Martha – is a story of priorities. Unless you and I choose to take time to sit at the feet of Jesus, we will not grow into his image. We will not come to know him … Read more
A Creative Way to Intercede for your Children
Esther Mcllveen and her husband wrote out separate lists of their aspirations for their three children in detail. Then they came together to share their findings, compare them, and agree upon those things they wanted to pray for. … Read more