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…
I’m a teacher at heart, but I didn’t stand in front of a classroom until I was forty-five years old. I’m also a confirmed introvert whose lifelong policy has been to keep quiet, shrink into the background, and observe but not be observed. This is why I so vividly remember the day—the moment—I stood in…
On May 6, 2013 Amanda Berry, an Ohio woman held captive for ten years, found freedom. Amanda and two other women had been abducted, starved, beaten, and raped year after year. But one night, Amanda found the courage to scream for help and was able to call 9-1-1 saying, “I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been…
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8 NASB) I recently participated in a wonderful retreat with women from my church. Known as the Desert Sisters,…
I live in Denver, Colorado. I hope that when you think of Denver, you think of mountains and the beauty of God’s creation. But with the twentieth anniversary of the Columbine shooting recently passing as well as the more recent school shooting in Highlands Ranch, you may also think of danger or brokenness. The pervasiveness…
“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…