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What if your waiting season is not a delay—but a divine invitation? Faith in the Waiting is a deeply personal and spiritually rich 30-day devotional inspired by the mysterious, powerful world of geysers in Yellowstone National Park. Through vivid metaphors, real-life stories, and gentle biblical insights, author Chris Stanley walks with listeners through the emotional terrain of waiting—when prayers feel unanswered, pressure builds silently, and nothing seems to move. Each chapter brings a fresh perspective on faith, drawing lessons from nature’s most unpredictable wonders.

On July 1, 2021, sports in America changed forever.

A podcast about the theatrics of life and the lives of the theatrical.

Great Groups are small groups that focus on making disciples. We built the podcast to encourage and equip adult small group leaders at Brook Hills and beyond.

In late June 2018, five people were murdered by an active shooter walking through their offices at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. Prosecutors say he blocked the exit so the victims couldn’t escape. The defendant, Jarrod Ramos, pleaded guilty to the murders but his lawyers now argue he’s not “criminally responsible” — Maryland’s version of the Insanity Defense. Prosecutors contend that his attack was planned in a “calculating and methodical” manner because the paper wrote unfavorable articles about him. Former TV reporter and lawyer Chris Gordon covered ...

When Ben Underwood became blind at the age of two, anyone would have thought he faced a life full of hardship and uphill challenges - a world full of things he’d never be able to see and activities he’d never be able to enjoy. But as far as his mom, Aquanetta Gordon, was concerned, nothing was impossible for Ben . . . and so he accomplished the incredible. Known as “the boy who could see with sound,” Ben mastered human echolocation - the ability to detect the size, shape and location of objects through the reflection of sound waves.

A lineman with something to prove. A vendetta against a baseball legend. The rise of a real-life NHL all-star. The luckiest grapefruit in sports history. Open up The Sports Pages, the third volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading, and you're in for all of this and more. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are 10 stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field. Compiled by kid-lit all-star Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a thrilling collection of brand-new short stories.