When our daughter, Caroline, was born and severe health complications quickly ensued, my wife Carla and I were driven to our knees, crying out to God for healing. Amid fear and fright, we sought his peace. When we felt less than confident that the story we’d imagined for ourselves as new parents wasn’t going to…
My mother passed away in 2017. She was one of the most faithful individuals I’ve ever known. She always loved Jesus, but her faith intensified when God brought her through a bout of brain cancer in 1980. She shared her story with many, and she always gave God full credit for her healing. If I…
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33 NIV) How do we handle the anxiety that grows between our expectations and our reality? My first memory of true anxiety occurred during my…
I don’t think anyone chose the word anxiety as their Word of the Year for 2020 or 2021, but I know many of us felt like it was chosen for us. For some of us, anxiety is a feeling that comes and goes, and for others, it’s more like the backdrop of the rest of…
Come, let us return to the Lord; For he has torn us, that he may heal us; He has struck us down, and he will bind us up. (Hos. 6:1 ESV) What an unpleasant thought! The Lord has torn us and struck us down? Surely not. The Lord is my Shepherd. The God I know…
It was a Monday. We’ve all had them, those Mondays that begin with disarray and distraction and feel like an endless loop of chaos and confusion certain to bleed over into the rest of the week. Every conceivable thing that can go wrong does, with a few surprises thrown in. I’m actually pretty used to…