“But I have food! I have food!!” the starving man cried. His fate had been sealed. Tears sprang to my eyes as I watched. While the man’s story was not meant to be a parable, I couldn’t help but relate to his struggle. My husband and I started watching the show Alone at the beginning…
“Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39 NIV) As I sat in the church pew with my head bowed in prayer, I heard a voice reverberate so thunderously in my heart that it…
During graduate school, it took an embarrassing amount of encouragement and cheerleading from my friends and family for me to complete my degree. While I’d been a big fish in a small pond as an undergraduate, I was now a tiny, very naïve fish in a rather large lake. I regularly wanted to quit, even…
I flee from pain. In a fight-or-flight scenario, I’m outta there. I’m running as fast as I can (basically 5mph) in any direction. Even in a novel, when the storyline unavoidably builds to a painful point and something earth-shattering is happening, my heart rate picks up, the tears flood, I close the book, and I’m…
“The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.” (Josh. 3:17 NIV) Have you ever watched God bring you through your own personal Red…
Recently, while studying the Book of Ephesians, it occurred to me that the apostle Paul wouldn’t be any more popular now than he was in his day. Sure, he had his converts. Yes, Christians were turning the world upside down. But there has never been a time when the majority welcomed what he called good…