Jenny Bender

View Full Post   Live alone? Here are some safety tips and tricks that you hopefully never need, but are good to know!

View Full Post   “When we are obedient, God guides our steps AND our stops.” What a wise observation from Corrie Ten Boom, and so true...

View Full Post   My heart sank earlier this week when I was scrolling through Instagram and saw the news that Dr. Charles Stanley had passed away. Dr Stanley has been, for me and countless others, such a pivotal part of…

View Full Post   The stories in the Bible sound pretty great, don't they? God healed people, helped people, performed mind-blowing miracles and brought people through impossible situations. But what about us today? The world looks a LOT different today than it did back then when those stories took place...is God still listening? Does God still have a plan? Does God still perform miracles? Will God still make a way where there is no way?

View Full Post   The tragedy at Covenant School in Nashville have everyone's emotions rattled. While many offer prayers, others scoff at prayers and call prayer useless. Danny Gokey had the perfect response for this - straight from the Word of God.

View Full Post   There’s a saying that the enemy wouldn’t be attacking you if something valuable wasn’t inside of you, because thieves don’t break into empty houses. You’ve got a purpose!

View Full Post   No matter how many times I've seen the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks, there's one part that ALWAYS rips me up: when his beloved volleyball, Wilson, gets lost in the ocean. "WILSONNNNNN!!!" he cries. His only friend is gone, and he's left alone & hopeless, in serious need of a lifeline...sound familiar?

View Full Post   The Bible says to train up a child and it looks like this little boy's parents are doing just that...

View Full Post   Puzzles – especially the larger, more complicated ones – can be very frustrating throughout the process of putting them together. You’re staring at a table full of teeny, tiny pieces and it’s hard to imagine each of them fitting together to form the picture on the front of the box. The funny thing is, the more you get put together, the more you realize how important every single piece in that box is – and NOTHING is more frustrating than getting an entire puzzle finished, only to discover that a piece is missing! Sure, the other nine hundred & ninety-nine pieces of the puzzle are beautiful and put together, but it’s not complete and it’s not the same without that one missing piece..

View Full Post   WOW, the things I take for granted and don't even realize it...like being able to see colors. Pink is my favorite color (one step into my office here at WAFJ and that's pretty obvious) and I couldn't imagine not being able to see in color. After watching this video of a boy crying because he received glasses that will allow him to see color for the first time, it's something I'll never take for granted again...