I don’t know about you my friend, but this has been one really tough week. In fact, as I sit typing these words, I find myself just plain exhausted from the weight of it all. Is there anything more difficult than watching people you love suffer and there isn’t much you can do to stop […]
Do you ever read a Bible verse that you have read at least a dozen times before, one that you are very familiar with, and suddenly have God surprise you with a totally different take on it? I love it when that happens! It happened to me this morning as I was once again studying
I am a big fan of nature shows and last night my daughter and I were watching one in which they were talking about giant sequoia trees. I marveled as they showed the beautiful giants and explained that they were the tallest trees in the world. At one point a man standing beside one of
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Our church recently had a visiting rabbi who challenged us to not just read Scriptures but to study them, to look up the words and find out exactly what they meant. I was excited to hear him say this because as previously stated, I am a nerd who already likes to do this! His challenge
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“Has no one ever told you about the law of Undulation?” – C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. I confess that the first time I read this book four and a half years ago, I had no idea what undulation meant. Lewis did however explain it a few sentences later, “the repeated return to a
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My message today is for a very specific group of people. It is for those who are walking through a dark valley that they cannot seem to see their way out of. It is for those carrying a weight of grief that settles upon them like a heavy blanket the moment their eyes open each
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“Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have” -John Piper. I am a writer, a lover of words, and I love to collect words, phrases, sentences, and quotes that speak to my heart. I have a lot of
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The other night my young daughter came to get in the bed with me and when I asked her why her answer made me have to hide a smile. She said, “I didn’t want you to have to be alone.” Now I knew that wasn’t her real reason for coming into my room and before
