Catherine Toon

Life is not for wimps. The struggles of life may vary drastically, but the common denominator in the human experience is adversity. Even those who seem to live a charmed life have secret struggles. You can assume that every person you meet has pain that is not readily apparent. Tragedy visits without regard to our best attempts to protect ourselves. But God created you as an overcomer - a champion...

You were created uniquely and exquisitely. You were created for a purpose. Fulfilling that purpose requires that you find your own voice. That is an ongoing process of discovering who you are and what you are passionate about. Sometimes this can be a real battle when the hurts of life, toxic relationships, and tragedy threaten to steal or silence your voice. But God created you with a message that...

Change is a constant. The world is changing. We are changing. Our lives are changing. Holy Spirit is relentlessly in the process of conforming us into the image of Christ - the image of Love from one level of revealed glory to another. As sons and daughters, we are led by the Spirit of God in the process and in the paths we are invited to take. If we look the same as we did a year ago, we are stag...

Focusing on lovely thoughts is so important for our mental health. It gives us capacity to address very real issues that carry pain and hopelessness. Strength to continue and restoration are on the other side. God truly is redeeming all things to Himself. He causes us to transcend out ugliness as He unveils who we really are in the image and likeness of Love. He restores our situations and circums...

Being a Pastor or Minister can be extremely isolating and lonely. Pastors and ministers are people with burdens, brokenness, quandaries, and traumas - all while carrying a lot of responsibility that can be crushing. Often they feel they have to represent Christ well, they have all the answers, a perfect family, perfect life, and perfect personal conduct, while getting downloads from God and fulfil...

It is part of the human condition to experience simply wrong or frankly evil situations. It can be utterly overwhelming. But in the midst of the perplexity, we do have hope. In the midst of so many things we do not have control over, we are empowered to control our own actions, attitudes, behavior, reactions, decisions and well-being . We can choose how we think about things. We can choose to forg...

Have you ever been disappointed with God? You prayed for healing, deliverance or protection and things got worse? You prayed for finances and lost your job or business? You prayed for your marriage and ended up in divorce court? You prayed for loved ones who seem more lost and spinning out of control? Disappointment, discouragement, and disillusionment are part of the human experience. The sense t...

God is Love. He is also Life, Light, Truth, the Way, the Door, the True Vine, and The Good Shepherd. Join me as we discover the delightful interplay and revelation of all these facets of the most lovely Person in the cosmos. The journey into Love is the most fascinating and intoxicating journey we can have. He wants us to intimately know Him. Let’s enjoy and adventure together! FREE complete “How...

Kyle Butler is a motivational and inspirational speaker, who exudes love and peace. As a former pastor, Kyle shares his journey out of religious bondage into freedom, peace, and joy. We were made for relationship with a God Who adores us and Who made us complete. When we identify who we really are, then it is abundantly clear who we are not. By following God’s Spirit from within ourselves, we are...

You were crafted and engineered for love by Love Himself. We were marked by Love before we were marred by anything else. Our worth and value has already been established. When we do not value what God values we are insulting God’s handiwork. You were made a poem to the world and were secured on God before the foundation of the world. Our commandment of love not only applies to God and others, but...

The question of whether or not God favors men over women is a crucial one. The thorny issue of women being undervalued, devalued, oppressed, or in bondage in masculine-favored societies over the ages is ongoing, if less overt. The pain is real and particularly difficult if it looks like God is for it on any level. The Old Testament of the Bible truly reflects societies where this was simply not qu...

Jamie Englehart shares how views of God, punishment, sin, hell, eschatology, and relationship are profoundly affected by the lens through which we view God. He traces the evolution of these lenses from a familial lens held by most of the church fathers to a judicial lens developed by Augustine and Calvin and how this has impacted the modern evangelical church. Scripture says God is Light, Life and...

Scripture states that as we think in our hearts, so we are. Our thoughts, true or untrue, frame what we experience as our reality. When we track with what God says, we experience freedom, joy, peace, healing, health, wholeness, and strength that transcend what is happening around us and can transform what is happening around us. As we believe the truth of who we are, we are empowered to walk in fr...

Most people have a sense of the value of giving and serving. This is such a premium in God’s kingdom that Christ laid down His life for humanity and gave us the commandment to love for one another. He defined loving one another as laying down our lives for one another. However when we serve out of obligation, which often stems from guilt, we can eventually become resentful, drained, and burnt out....

Alana shares her powerful journey through brokenness, narcissistic relationships, freedom from spiritual abuse, cults, and toxic new age to be established in her true identity, worth, and value. This released her into her purpose. Alana is a Christ-centered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Coach who specializes in helping women get rooted in their true identity and worth in Christ. Through her own jou...

Jesus said unless we change and become like children, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven. What does this mean? Clearly childlikeness is a premium. God’s nature is relational. He is Love and He is Father to a race of children He adores. Knowing God rightly empowers us to rest in the foundational truth that we are beloved children and from that place know who we are and how to receive, function...

The fast lane is all about getting somewhere quickly, often with sights on passing others to be first. This is not really a God perspective. God takes the long view to accomplish eternal purposes that transcend time and space and manifest His goodness for His kids. God is relational and relationship is much more about journey and process than it is about objective. Actually, relationship with ALL...

“Deconstruction” is a popular term and growing movement. Honest grappling with who God is, who we are, theological constructs, and how we are to live out lives is crucial. Some things need to be discarded and new things embraced. Other foundational truths are solidified and brought into living color as they are grappled with. One does not have to be fearful of deconstruction, but it can have pitfa...

Jesus said He is the Resurrection and the Life. Because of our union with Him, we are permanently one with Christ, Who is the Resurrection and the Life. Revelation of this empowers us to experience this reality in our lives. This is a message not for just a privileged few, who have somehow “arrived” but for ALL of God’s kids! You are being unveiled with the truth of who you are, packed full of glo...

One of the greatest needs humanity has is that of robust intimate love relationship. We were simply made for love and in the image and likeness of Love Himself. Learning to love in a fallen world full of unhealthy agendas is difficult and thorny. This is nowhere more prevalent than in our relationship with God. Humanity, those identifying themselves as Christians or not, struggles with experiencin...

God is a long range planner. His saves, heals, delivers, transforms, and redeems all things. But the redemptions process may seem so slow and covert it may feel like He is tardy and withholding. The human cry for justice can come out as an accusation that God is slack, weak, cold, distant, unreliable, or even twisted and the source of evil. He allows Himself to be accused and mocked, even as He wo...

We all crave freedom and justly so. Where the Spirit is there is freedom. He is the Spirit of life and Love. We were made to be free! Like many things, confusion does crop up with what that looks like. There are different versions of freedom, some of which are not life-giving. What if our freedoms trample on someone else’s freedoms? What does love look like there? Join me as I unpack this importan...

Our mindsets are the key to living a peaceful, powerful, and abundant life. We are admonished to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. When we are double-minded, we are basically incapacitated to move forward. Elizabeth Nader has powerful revelation into the dynamics of upgrading our mindsets and how to get unstuck. Elizabeth is a visionary, inspiring others to discover their true selves......

You have a destiny. To a person, it is utterly glorious! It is none other than to be conformed into the dazzling image of Christ and from that place do the exploits you were crafted to do. This was decided before the foundation of the world,, before humanity could vote. We can choose to partner with this or resist it. God honors our free will. But when we do, we flow with the design of God’s origi...

The Church is called to love as Christ loves. Unconditional love by definition is love without conditions. There is much controversy surrounding the Church and the LGBTQ+ Community. How do we build bridges, loving as Christ loves on an individual level, on a leadership level, and as as the Church at large? What is God doing here as He leads His sons and daughters? Jermaine Thomas is a husband, fat...