It’s been 30 years and I’m still just was WOWed by Jesus as I was in 1987 when He saved me! No-one was more surprised than I was that Jesus would take this girl with a bad past and bleak future and give me a new heart and a new…
Hi, sweet friends! I had such an awesome time in the Word today! How ’bout you? Our Jesus is real! He loves us with an everlasting love and longs for our fellowship. Hope you had some time to scoot your sweet little self up under His arms and just bask…
One of the first lessons we learned on the mission field was you have to earn a listening ear. It’s hard for hearts to hear the Gospel when their growling bellies are the loudest things they hear. It difficult to share the love of Christ with our words unless we…
I love to breathe in every destiny-changing and memory-making moment of Christmas. The sacred event that literally changed everything has a way of changing me every year. Carefully adorning the tree with trinkets to remind us of what the season is all about, I inhale what it all means and am…
This is so very personal for me. I was a single mom who could barely keep food on the table and a roof over my head. I’ve waited in the long lines for food stamps, filled out the complicated pages for assistance, and applied for government housing. The $13 in…
Our Christian culture beckons emboldened behavior that questions traditions and embraces trends. Our positions and perspectives are often filtered through the lens of hipster hype and modern moral mores. Challenging the status quo is a brave and often noble way to filter foolish folklore from rich and deep biblical traditions.…
Women. You’d think that since I am a woman, I’d be ready to dive in head first. But let’s face it, it’s definitely a deep subject for a shallow mind. I’m just oh-so glad that I don’t have to rely on my opinion about how to approach the vastness of…
Emotions run high and personal experiences run deep for the tough topic we are tackling in this chapter. Immigration. Patriotism. Racism. There are so many variables and so many lives affected by these cultural crises that beckon for our attention. But does the Bible speak to these questions? And if so, what…
Few topics sizzle sentiments like this one does. It’s high on the cultural and social agendas of our day and taking ground at warp speed. Some twenty-plus years ago, we were told it was coming. A new normal our nation would be forced to embrace. Modern-day morals that mock morality…
I sat by her bedside holding tight to her weak and wrinkled hand. Each breath a labored gift of just a few more minutes of life. Tears slid softly and slowly from her tight clinched eyes as she fought hard to speak but the words wouldn’t come. And so I…