I hate the two-faced, but I love your clear-cut revelation. You’re my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me. Get out of my life, evildoers, so I can keep my God’s commands. Take my side as you promised; I’ll live then for sure. Don’t disappoint all my grand hopes. Stick…
When I first came to faith, the thing I struggled with most was what to do next. Everyone told me that the best way to get to know God was to read the Bible. Since I didn’t grow up in the faith, this seemed like an impossible task. I could make it through most of…
“That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.” (Matt 13:13 CSB) We have grown accustomed to clickable headlines, sharable memes, and quoteable tweets. Without researching the backstory (sometimes without reading the whole article), social media users are quick to share…
Our boys are twenty months apart in age, and when they were young, we lived in a small town that required us to drive about twenty-five minutes each way to the grocery store. Once, after this half-day event, I was loading groceries and kids into our car on the cusp of meltdowns into our car…
“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12 NIV) I had a friend in high school with a white Camaro. Classic car. Meticulously restored. White-glove-clean inside and out. But whenever this…
The thoughts overtook my mind, slithering in like an unwanted guest. You don’t have anything worthwhile to contribute. No one really cares. She does it so much better than you. I knew the lies were from the enemy, but I still struggled to stop them. Our Enemy knows just how to come after us. He’s…