How Quickly the Picture Can Change

How Quickly the Picture Can Change

by | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog, Peter Herbeck

On a sunny Saturday morning in early February, my wife, Debbie, and I were enjoying a quiet ride home to Ann Arbor from Grand Rapids, Michigan. The evening before, we had the privilege of speaking at a gala marriage event for more than two hundred Catholic couples. My...
Brazil Mission Reveals Shared Heart for Christ

Brazil Mission Reveals Shared Heart for Christ

by | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog

Isn’t it fun when you meet someone and realize they have a common friend or shared experience? In those moments, we often marvel, “Small world, isn’t it?” Rachel Herbeck and I recently completed a whirlwind mission to Brazil, and this was a common refrain throughout...
Your Present Circumstances

Your Present Circumstances

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Rachel Herbeck

What are your present circumstances? Are you in a season where you are feeling God’s love a lot? Are you in a season of suffering? In Philippians, St. Paul tells us his circumstances and how he responds to them in the power of the Holy Spirit: I want you to...
A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Ralph Martin

Dear Friends and Fellow Disciples, As usual, there is a lot going on—thanks be to God! So much great work for the kingdom is being made possible through your support! The class I taught during the fall semester at the seminary was perhaps my best class ever, both...
What Would Monica Do?

What Would Monica Do?

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog

Discovering the Faith I met my husband, Mark, in the Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands. Mark died on May 11, 2024. We had been married almost forty-three years, and it was a day and fifteen minutes before his sixty-eighth birthday. When we met, we were we were both...