These days, it seems as though my life is a whirlwhind of constant activity. Caring for my ill and aging parents, organizing the Ignite Pastors’ Conference, making travel plans for the team, preparing to speak at the conference, being a wife and mother, trying to find time to spend with…
I was recently talking with my 22 year old son about twittering and I began to wonder if Paul would have had a Twitter account and if so, whom would he be following and who would be following him. Let’s face it, Paul lived a very focused life. Every…
I’ve recently decided to join the social networking venue of the tweeting world and have found that there’s something addicting about meeting people from different parts of the country and even the world who share the same faith and/or ideology. But, if you’re like me, you have to be careful…
Here I am just six weeks before our annual pastors conference in Costa Rica and I have so much to do that I’m feeling a little scattered. O.K., I’m feeling a lot scattered. With lessons to prepare, traveling plans to finish making, booklets to develop, gifts to buy, donations to…
Someone recently asked me how and why I began writing. It wasn’t something I had ever thought about before. When I was a child I loved to write. It often replaced my fumbling efforts at making sense of my own thoughts. Words always seemed to sound better after the ink…
Delight Yourself in the Lord 08/30/2009 at 3:53 pm Just on the heels of the Beth Moore simulcast, I find myself exceedingly amazed at our God. I had no idea what Beth’s topic was, I only knew I had to be there. And there she was…on Psalm 37:4. The very…
In a world gone mad, many are wondering how things ever got this way in the first place. The economy has taken a nosedive; the jobless rates are higher than imaginable; we have lost our moral compass… choosing to call what is right, wrong, and what is wrong, right. We…
I remember watching the Andy Griffith show when I was younger and with guitar in hand, Andy began singing a love song to Helen. There was something intrinsically moving about that moment and as a little girl I remember thinking, “Maybe one day, someone will sing a love song to…
As I was in the Word this morning, I was reading how Jesus had compassion for the people who had gathered to hear Him speak and to see if He would heal or deliver them. They had spent three days with the Lord in anticipation of what He might say…
As we look at the vastness of all God has created, help us not focus on the creation, but rather on the One who created it all. He is known throughout scripture by many titles and many characteristics, but we first know Him as our Creator!!