
These trials are reminders of our desperate need for Jesus. Freely, we can turn to him in our pain, sorrow, and suffering.
Continue Reading →These trials are reminders of our desperate need for Jesus. Freely, we can turn to him in our pain, sorrow, and suffering.
Continue Reading →Part 2 Coming face to face with our true selves isn’t pretty. We prefer the false constructs we’ve erected in our minds. We believe we’re actually doing all the things we know we should. Rarely is that the entire picture. …
Continue Reading →Relocation this time around was a test of faith of a different variety for us. God in his mercy protected us, carried us, and continues to go before us. So many prayers were answered for the sale of our house …
Continue Reading →The predator usually kills with no warning. First, it seeks to find the weak or unprotected points of entry. Then it attacks. The victim is often dead before it comprehends what just happened. I watch a lot of National Geographic. …
Continue Reading →Even after forty-five years of being a follower of Christ, God’s faithfulness still astonishes me. In many ways I still hold on to the vestiges of my broken legalistic beginning. That mindset dictates that God’s affection for me is dependent upon …
Continue Reading →Days will come when everyone will let you down. We are far too complex for it to be any other way. We are created in the image of God, immortal souls, and our needs can only be fully met by …
Continue Reading →I wake at 3:15 a.m. and stare into the darkness for four hours. It’s one of those days. I haven’t yet written about my autoimmune disease in the new year, but it’s still with me. That’s the nature of chronic …
Continue Reading →The second half of this year, I got lost in the darkness. I scraped the bottom. My illness worsened, our home flooded from a broken waterline, my husband caught an awful protracted virus, which he passed to me, and then …
Continue Reading →As we remember the fulfillment of the best promise in human history – the birth of Christ, God in human flesh come to redeem us, I have the privilege of reviewing a book that speaks into the darkness of human …
Continue Reading →It’s our brokenness that drives us into Christ’s arms. Without an awareness of how broken we are, we wouldn’t think we needed Him, and we would be lost, without the constant comfort of His friendship and His promise of heaven. …
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