Television/radio host and author Dr. Debra Peppers, shares how she overcame her own personal struggles of being 100 pounds overweight, depressed, and even suicidal, so that you too can be equipped and prepared to receive God‘s love, forgiveness, strength, and joy for living each day. Learn how you can apply God‘s word to change areas in your life, face the unknown trials of each day and be equipped for the great future that God has for you. Debra uses her life examples, sprinkled with humor, of being a high school dropout to PhD to Teacher of the Year and from Hall of Shame to Hall of Fame. Life is short and it’s time for you to have joy for your journey.
If you are like many, summer isn’t the fun, endless safe haven it once was. Do you feel like the world has changed and so have you? Guess what! You are right! But what if it could be even better than…
My mother disciplined my “potty mouth” the same way her mother had done to her…she washed my mouth out with soap! And the only soap at our bathroom sink was LAVA! Gritty, nasty and probably much need…
I was always searching for the perfect job, the perfect spouse, the perfect diet or the even the perfect life. And everything and everyone failed me…until I found the only ONE who could satisfy me.
What do Barbara Bush, Malcolm X, Paul Newman, B.B. King and my mom Bootsie all have in common? What year do you think they were born? And how many are still living and thriving? Old isn’t old to me a…
My husband and I used to debate the fact that people are basically good. I said that because we are born with a “sin nature” even a 2 year old baby can lie, cheat and steal. So how do we get good?
There was an old song that spelled out MOTHER with a line after each letter. What is the “mother” story written on your heart about your own own mother? My Moma Bootsie turns 97 next week and I can’t…
How old is “too old to get married”? Is there an age limit? My friends had been lonely too long, and wondered if they would ever find love again. After many years, God indeed answered their prayers.
Back in the day, all of us, the whole family, whether we wanted to or not, went to church on Christmas and Easter? I was worried about chocolate, bunnies and egg hunts…until I found the real meaning!
It seems some people love to spread hate and gossip, putting others down for whatever reason. Then, when they are confronted by that person, they are so nice to their face and laugh it off as a joke.
Do you hate April 1st because people just make fools of themselves trying to fool others? Or are you a prankster like I am and love to plan jokes? Every year my husband dreads April 1st because he kn…
If you ever had a broken heart that was so intense you literally did not want to live, perhaps you just didn’t find the right answer – or the right solution.
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Why have you ended up where you are in your life right now? Did you plan it; did you choose it? Or did it choose you? Mine was chosen for me.
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Do we just turn off the news these days to not think about the world devastation that is happening? Yet how can we possibly get it out of our minds – and should we? What can we do to fix it ?
Thomas Edison said that he had found 10,000 ideas that did not work before he invented the light bulb. If pride comes before destruction and destruction before the fall, that really reveals more than…
For months we have been planning a huge conference called SPARKLE! Finally, 300 women poured in, and were blessed. So many of us worked together, but one woman had the original idea, and she is amazi…
Have you ever had such intense pain you thought you would die? What if the pain is emotional, a heartache? What if the pain is just in your own head? There is a remedy for all pain –just press throug…
Have you ever loved someone or something, and then come to hate them? They say there is a fine line between love and hate – like drugs or alcohol, or a food obsession. Sometimes love can even kill yo…
Our Black pastor friend who doesn’t like to be called African-American, has asked us to help share his upcoming conference, All Lives Matter. It may cause a controversy on our upcoming radio program.
My husband had found a trick mechanical rat that he knew would send me running. So he videotaped me with the intent of sharing it, and eventually it was on AFV! Bob Saget shared it with the world.
I have had back issues and severe, sometimes incapacitating chronic pain for twenty years. Finally I have an opportunity for a “new implant procedure,” and we have determined it is worth the risk.