MSI Press Blog

  Today's Publisher's Pride is Eternal Sprins: Joy Found in the Book of John by Bruce Floren which reached #25 in the Amazon category of motivation and spiritual growth. Book Description: What if joy isn’t optional in the Christian life—but essential? For many, religion feels heavy, demanding, and joyless. Yet Jesus promised life “to the full.” In Eternal Springs, the author draws from his deeply personal journey of leaving faith behind to pursue happiness, where he ultimately discovered that true joy could only be found by returning to Christ. Rooted in the Gospel of John and shaped by decades of lived experience, this book uncovers a vibrant, Spirit-led understanding of joy—not as shallow emotion, but as the divine energy that fuels love, grace, fruitfulness, and spiritual vitality. This is Christianity rediscovered: Joy that sustains rather than distracts Faith that overflows rather than burdens A life that becomes an attractive aroma to the glory of God Eternal Springs i...

  We often imagine fear and forgiveness as opposites: fear closes the heart, forgiveness opens it. But in real life, they often coexist — trembling and grace sharing the same space. Forgiveness rarely arrives in the absence of fear. It arrives through it. Fear: The Guardian of the Wound Fear protects what has been hurt. It warns, Don’t go there again. It builds walls around pain, hoping to prevent another blow. And for a time, those walls are necessary. They give us space to heal, to breathe, to understand what happened. But fear, left unexamined, becomes a prison. It keeps the wound alive long after the injury has passed. Forgiveness: The Courage to Open the Gate Forgiveness does not erase fear; it faces it. It says, I see what happened. I acknowledge the risk. And still, I choose release. Forgiveness is not naïve. It does not pretend the harm was small or the danger gone. It simply refuses to let fear dictate the future. In this way, forgiveness is an act of courage — not sof...

  Illness has a way of rearranging the furniture of a life. Not always dramatically, not always all at once — but slowly, insistently, like a tide that keeps nudging the shoreline into a new shape. One day you wake up and realize the questions you’re asking yourself aren’t the ones you asked five years ago, or even last season. “Who am I if I can’t do what I used to do?” “What does success look like now?” “How do I build a life that fits my body instead of fighting it?” These aren’t signs of defeat. They’re signs of evolution. 🌿 When the old identity no longer fits For most of us, identity is built around doing — the roles we fill, the tasks we manage, the strengths we rely on without thinking. Illness disrupts that. It interrupts the automatic. It forces a pause in places where we once moved without hesitation. And that pause can feel like a threat. When your body changes, it’s easy to believe your self is changing in ways you didn’t choose. But identity isn’t a fixed struc...

  Abod is a young man in Gaza, struggling to stay alive and to care for his sick cat, Lucy. Here is his story: My dog’s name was Jackson. I cared for him and loved him with everything I had, but when the famine began, the occupation killed him in cold blood and left him to suffer and die from hunger. Today, all I have left is my cat, Lucy. I’m afraid of everything that could happen to her, and I’m doing everything I can to provide her with food because I can’t bear the pain of losing her too. I lost Jackson, and I don’t want to experience that loss again. If you can, please help me, even with a small donation, to provide food for Lucy. And if you can’t donate, please share this post. Your share might be what saves her life. I’m not asking for much… I just want Lucy to stay alive. You can follow Lucy and Abod on Twitter and communicate with him at @abodaljbour16 .   If you wish to donate (even $5 helps and even $1 helps), you can do so safely through Chuffed:   H...