A thousand dollars can fix car problems, pay rent, or help with a house payment. A thousand dollars keeps water flowing, heat working, and food on the table. A thousand dollars is a lot of money. The size of your bank account doesn’t change that. A number of years ago, my husband and I made…
This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. The seed along the path are those who have heard and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. And the seed on the rock are those who, when they…
He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared…
One Tuesday evening a month, I spend a few hours with a handful of coaches’ wives over video chat. Our time is mostly spent discussing various Bible studies. We have also celebrated pregnancies, mourned deaths, prayed for job transitions, and confessed our fears to each other. Most importantly, we pray for each other. Our group…
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25 NASB). In the context of this verse, walk refers not to a person’s gait but to the rule or manner of life, to how one lives out the faith. Most often, the Greek word translated walk is peripateo. As I…
I never thought I’d find myself in liturgy. I was raised in the Church of Christ in Texas in the 1990s. My father was raised Episcopalian in Texas in the 1960s, only because there happened to be an Episcopal church across the street from his house. My father’s father was raised Swiss Mennonite in Kansas…