Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather…
I fight the urge to hyperventilate as we get close to the trailhead. I wish the cause was adrenaline and excitement, but that’s not the problem. Self-recrimination runs wild. How could I do this to myself again? What was I thinking when I said another yes to this kind of trip? Did I forget that…
The Holy Spirit descended on him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.” (Luke 3:22 CSB) In my preteen years, I often danced around my bedroom with a hairbrush microphone in hand. Music blasted from my jam box. My…
You may have seen the film The Greatest Showman. With its phenomenal music, raucous dancing, and Hugh Jackman, what’s not to like, right? (Okay, perhaps the fact that it’s not at all true to P. T. Barnum’s life can give us pause. But as a stand-alone, mostly fictional film, it’s pretty rad.) At one point…
When the people of Israel saw the mighty power that the Lord had unleashed against the Egyptians, they were filled with awe before him. They put their faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses. (Exodus 14:31 NLT) Sometimes God takes us out of our comfortable lives to show us how much we need…
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV) Adventure. Living with wild abandon. Spontaneity. Embracing the journey. These are all words and phrases I love. Do they describe me? No. Do I live those like those words matter to me? Nope. Then why…