Good Things

It’s hard sometimes to know who we are serving. You can do all the right things: attend church, read your bible and pray, and you can still be harboring idolatrous desires for everything from baking...

Easter Hope

Romans 6 tells us that Jesus died once – that he would never die again and death would never have dominion over him. As surprising as his initial resurrection was to those women, the fact that he...

Too Tired

Too tired….not to bicker with my husband. ...

The Insidious Weed

As I pulled up sprig after sprig, I thought how this weed is just like sin in my life. It always shows up after a rain, just like sin creeps in after a time of blessing and celebration when we least...

"Strength"

... And there has been NOTHING that I have done, that I have been through, that has truly mattered - that God did not give me His Own Strength in order to not only survive but to thrive and come out...

No Pastor, Still?

What is going on in this world? In our church? And most of all, in you and me? Do you feel like I do? Like nothing is going well? Are you wondering what the heck is going on? There’s the ongoing...

Take a Sip of This

She is as close to the earth as she can be. Her body is as dirty as the very muddy ground that she kneels on to get water from the well.

"Distracted Praise"

How many times—especially close to dinner time, when the children are the most demanding, the laundry still needs to be put away, and someone delivered to Scouts or a piano lesson—have I longed to...

The Pain of Healing

I remember lying in my bed one night after dinner, crying out to God in my spirit, begging God to help me, feeling such pain in my heart.

God of Miracles

Grace Flips the world upsidedown. Like Alice falling into Wonderland, the world becomes topsy turvy. The Weak are STRONG. The Poor are RICH. The Last will be FIRST and the First will be LAST. The Meek...