“But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps” (1 Peter 2:20b-21 …
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When I fell in love with my husband, I wanted to learn every detail about him. I longed to be intimately acquainted with his stories, motivations, and dreams. At the beginning of our relationship, we spent hours swapping histories, each …
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The fact that God does all the work in our salvation leaves us no room for boasting. Because he loves us, he gave his Son. His Son paid for our sins. The Holy Spirit works on our hearts, causing us …
Continue Reading →We’re dead, and we’re dust. This is the perfect receptacle for imperishable seed. How often do we consider the true state of our reformation? Our decision to turn in faith to Christ feels as if it springs from within. We …
Continue Reading →“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator” (Colossians 3:9b-10 NIV). Growing in Christ is like …
Continue Reading →I woke up this morning to find the website problem still plagues me. Though my navigation bar continues to wander around, obliterating headings (a minor issue in light of eternity), yet I am not consumed. I did not tear my …
Continue Reading →Frequently, I am asked these questions: When will your bible studies be up for sale? When is your book going to be published? Where can I buy it? Who’s in control? One thing I’ve learned about this life journey is …
Continue Reading →Women need one another. Without each other, we shrivel, each feeling all alone in her struggle and ineffective within the body of Christ. God made us all to fit together like a beautiful stone structure—God’s spiritual house (1 Peter 2:4-10). …
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“I was like a stone lying in deep mud, but He that is mighty lifted me up and placed me on top of the wall” (St. Patrick). Usually, I picture Jesus as he must have looked from Peter’s perspective. As …
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In the middle of our earthly Christmas homegoing to visit parental home and family, my spiritual growth feels like a Band-aid over the gaping wound of my sinful nature and my brokenness. Feeling like a fragile fraud, a barely …
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