What is the most amazing thing you ever saw God do? Almost a decade ago, I went on my first mission trip, a twenty-four-hour journey from the church parking lot to our hostel in Aflao, Ghana. I prayed more than usual in the months leading up to the trip. Two things kept coming up in…
I don’t like to wear short sleeves. Even the hot, humid summers here in the Deep South will find me on the verge of heatstroke in cardigans with the sleeves pushed up. I know it’s ridiculous. Every summer, I promise myself I’ll grow up and be more mature about it next year. But each time…
We had been warned. News alerts and weather apps had all told us a big, wild, prairie thunderstorm was brewing in Montana and would strike central North Dakota sometime in the early morning. We tracked the radar as the storm progressed, but we went to bed at 11 p.m. because we thought the storm predictions…
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel,…
I love a good crime drama. Call me hooked on NCIS (all of them), Elementary, Murder She Wrote reruns, and any other show that has the whodunnit element. In TV Land, the case is closed when the good guys get the bad guys because these shows stop short of what happens next: trial by jury….
“When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks, and they started speaking in a number…