WORDS: They Reveal, Renew and Bring Breakthrough
Our words matter! We must ask the Lord to train our mouths to speak words that bless, give life, and empower those around us to run.
Our words matter! We must ask the Lord to train our mouths to speak words that bless, give life, and empower those around us to run.
By trying so hard to be like someone else, not only do we try to mirror them but we give up our own identity.
My knight in shining pj’s, smirking like Steve Erwin on the trail of a crikey rattler.
Peace! Just what we need and just what we need now!
The capital city has many destitute people, but the small villages of Nepal are occupied by the poorest of the poor.
If I am being completely honest, there were several days that I struggled to remember what I had been promised.
The promises of God are above the bad reports of the earth below.
I call this process looking for golden nuggets along the path.
Thankfully, the father was there, willing enough to pick up the pieces at the end.
The nature of the seals as well as the majority of the book of Revelation is still shrouded in mystery and symbolism.
I remember. I remember how badly I used to want to be just like you. I remember the tears when leaving your fancy, stained-glass churches as a young woman, wanting so desperately to fit in. I remember looking in a mirror outside of the sanctuary and wondering how expensive plastic surgery might be. I remember […]
Without at least some lies, where would we all be? Answer: In the next age. Here’s a false claim: “Eat more pomegranates, and lose weight!” You might think that sounds perfectly reasonable. Then you go to the store, load up your grocery cart with pomegranates, pomegranate juice, and even pomegranate extract pills—all in the name […]
Mother’s Day is a tricky holiday. If it is a happy day for you … it is gloriously happy! And if it is a sad day for you … it is heartbreakingly sad – It is not a day that goes unnoticed in any woman’s heart – and so in honor of all of the […]
I pray the distractions that once pushed You aside
will become less important in our daily lives
and that the things we choose to fill our days
will be things that please You and bring You praise
Make no mistake, the enemy does not ever stop his assault against our marriages. That is until…
What can we learn from The Good Shepherd?
My mom has had a rough go of life. My father, a whiskey-for-breakfast alcoholic, left her for another woman when I was six. Years later I found out that my step-sister—who was just a few months my senior—was actually my half-sister. My dad, Lenny, had been sleeping with this other woman the entire time he […]
If you’re anything like me, then you’re inclined to believe that life can only make sense if on some scale, on some level, there is some measure of balance and symmetry.
How do we honor God, our families, and ourselves during this weird time?
I am tired of gloom and doom
We want to use this time to dial in our marriage, our relationships as a family, and how we disciple our kids.
It is sometimes hard to get perspective when I read through the Bible quickly.
Today as I talked to the Lord about what was rumbling around in my head lately, I felt the leading to read Ecclesiastes.
“It is the dawning of a new day.”