Guest writer, Tammy Burkhalter, served as Director of Congregational Care at First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, SC, for 22 years. She volunteered as an Alzheimer’s Support Group Facilitator for seven years and cared for her mother who lived with Alzheimer’s for ten years. She is now a full-time grandmother to her one-year-old grandson.

"Like those who lived by faith before Christ fulfilled their hopes, He wants us to 'walk' by faith as His disciples, as long-term, ongoing demonstrations of the new, eternal, abundant life He has given us, not yet perfect but made adequate by His life in us."

"...abundantly blessed not so we can store up the abundance for ourselves, ... we can give it away ... to leave behind for others to glean."

The abortion pill has been the perceived panacea for the years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but carries significant risks to moms.

But our family’s song of joy soon turned to one of weeping lament, when Elisa and her husband learned of their preborn daughter’s diagnosis.

"A few years later, ... still on her green card, she became pregnant with me after a sexual assault. She went to a home for unwed mothers."

By PPL Former Director, Deborah Hollifield "The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?" (Prov. 18:14)...

Fifty-two years ago three young adults loved God and me enough to pray for me, to alert me to my need for God’s forgiveness, and to tell...

By PPL Former Executive Director, Deborah Hollifield Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen...

These shorter, darker days around Christmas afford us opportunity to think retrospectively

The personal testimony of a life transformed by Christ after the trauma of abortion.

God is revealing the secret...to enduring through this time of caretaking.

It's Easter season, and Christians are supposed to be focused on the resurrection, but for going on 3 years we've been stuck on Good Friday

PPL Board Member, Rev. Jonathan B. Leach, reminds us that the antidote for our culturally-induced fears is a healthy, optimistic hope...

It feels like false optimism to imagine that crossing an imaginary line into 2021 will bring the fresh start associated with most new years.