Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a faculty member at Brigham Young University. She along with her colleagues have been studying the connection between social connection and mortality. In one of her projects, their team analyzed 148 studies with over 350,000 participants worldwide.

Here is what she found. “Julianne’s study showed that people with strong social relationships are 50 percent less likely to die prematurely than people with weak social relationships. Even more striking, she found that the impact of lacking social connection...

So last week I wrote to you about the 1st and 2nd chapter of the First Letter of John found in the Bible.

What had stuck out to me in chapter 1 was that God is light and in Him is no darkness.

What had hit me while I read through the 2nd chapter was that we are living in the “end times” the last days, and we need to be vigilant and awake, aware of false teachers, not falling into traps...

Forcing myself to arise from my bed each morning has become the telltale sign that something’s not right in my soul. Although I mouth the words, “His mercies are new every morning; great is God’s faithfulness”, I find myself quickly reverting back to images from the prior day, where I hear another voice whisper, “Why bother?”

The ever present conflict in my head appears in gray matter pixels, replete with shootings, burning buildings, statues flattening, social media hate speech, and general...

The First Letter that John writes (1st John in the Bible) is the book that so many people have suggested that I suggest to new believers. I have probably only read that letter along with the other two that John writes (2nd John and 3rd John) once. Like a full read through. I’ve definitely read pieces and parts but the entire thing, I’ve probably read through once.

But since so many people have told me to direct others there, I figured...