Perhaps you’ve heard the story of a man who went on a mission trip to Sudan and witnessed the harsh reality of human trafficking. People were being bought and sold like used furniture at a garage sale. They had no hope…they had no voice. They would be someone else’s possession…
I remember when I was a little girl I had a problem with curiosity. I wanted to know the how’s and why’s about everything from how butterflies fly to how televisions worked. Unfortunately, my inquisitive nature got me in trouble more times than I’d like to admit. One day, I…
As I was preparing for one of the messages I’ll be sharing with the ladies at the Ignite Pastors’ Conference in Costa Rica, I was reminded of our need to reflect on who Jesus really is. Somehow, in all the busyness of life, we become easily distracted from the one…
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…