Here are the 10 most viewed stories of 2019.

1. Ben Malcolmson: Faith, purpose, and perseverance
A former HPUMC Youth member, Ben Malcolmson attended USC in college and unexpectedly made the football team as a walk-on. While on the team, Ben felt called to start Bible studies and lead prayer groups with his teammates. Time after time, he failed to accomplish what God was asking him to do. Or so he thought.

2. Date night with the Rasmussens! Paul and Ashley share marital advice from their own experience
Almost 300 couples joined us for The Marriage Project's first "Date Night" event! Couples got to hang out with good food, games, and a festive atmosphere, while a slide show featuring conversation questions, and pictures of different pastors at their weddings (some from 30 years ago!) played. The group then moved into Wesley Hall, where they were treated to Ashley and Paul Rasmussen talking about their marriage.

3. Pie with a purpose: Sweet new shop launching soon in the Tolleson Family Activity Center
Before Chance’s Pie & Coffee Shop opened in September, we answered some questions about this delicious new spot, from the meaning behind the name to where you can get a delicious pie of your own.

4. Space for Grace: A simple method for enhancing your marriage
Peggy Wehmeyer shared how loving your partner as yourself means making the radical commitment to seeing him or her from God’s point of view.

5. What does Ash Wednesday mean for us? (Rerun)
Most of us know that it’s customary to give up something during the forty days of Lent, but Rev. Walt Marcum shared why do we actually do it.

6. Why do bad things happen to good people?
It’s perhaps the oldest, most universal question that humanity has for the divine. There isn’t a culture among us that doesn't wonder why children get terminally ill, why natural disasters ravage entire nations, or why tragedy strikes the undeserving. We want to know, “Why?”

7. Resurrection Rolls: a tasty way to share Easter with your kids
Natalie Willis’ family bakes resurrection rolls to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. In the past, they made them on Good Friday, but this year, they decided to use the activity as a way to kick off Lent and start the conversations about Easter.

8. Eight ways you can help someone who is grieving
When someone we care about is grieving, we can often be at a loss for what to say or do. We simply haven’t been taught how to deal with grief — our own or others’. In this piece, Dr. Jana Rentzel shared several tips for helping someone in grief.

9. Invisible Sisterhood: supporting those in the midst of infertility and loss
It was after her third miscarriage that Catherine found Invisible Sisterhood at HPUMC. She was extremely hesitant to show up on a Thursday night to a support group, where she knew no one, and talk about the hardest thing she had ever been through.

10. You can choose to feed on fear, or you can fast from it
Instead of allowing “what ifs” to cause sorrow upon sorrow, Anne chose to believe Jesus when he says there is no sting in death. In doing so, she found comfort in knowing that God doesn’t lie.