The Glorious Table is thrilled to welcome Annie F. Downs today. Annie is the author of Let’s All Be Brave (Zondervan, 2015) and Looking for Lovely (B&H, 2016). We were never meant for a wimpy life. Now don’t hear me saying we weren’t meant for a simple life or a stay-at-home life or a famous…
The mother of Jesus sat on the ground. Her tears fell into the dirt. Above her, Mary’s firstborn son was dying, nailed to a wooden cross. The deafening crowd was shouting “Crucify him!” The disciples had scattered, leaving only John by her side. The chilling sight of her son, beaten and dying, must have shaken…
Has anyone ever asked you if your glass is half empty or half full? The goal of this question is to provoke self-examination. The person with a positive outlook on life will typically respond that their glass is half full. The person with a not-so-positive outlook on life will typically respond that their glass is…
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Heb. 11:1 NIV) It was spring. Every Wednesday afternoon, I left work and headed north with my bicycle strapped to the back of my car, eager to get in a nine-mile ride on Poplar Creek Trail before the mid-week service…
When I was ten, we lived in a house in the country in upstate New York. It was nestled between a soft hillside and a forest. A stream trickled down the gulley and curved around the front border of the property. One snowy day I went for a walk, venturing into the woods alone. Leafless…
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. (Gen. 22:9-10 KJV)…