I’ve been asked “How do you pray for what’s going on with the Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh?” My reply, “Early and often” maybe isn’t what people actually want to know. What they’re really asking is how you even begin to pray for such a situation. Scripture, my friends, Scripture. Brett Kavanaugh […]
Why is it so hard oftentimes to move forward…to feel like we’re making progress?” Well, that’s something I ask myself frequently. One day when I was reading this passage, a thought occurred to me. Philippians 3:3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in […]
Today I’d like to introduce another friend—also an author—whose friendship has been formative in my Christian walk. Her name is Mary Ethel Eckard of Dragonfly Ministries. Her new book, “The Making of a Dragonfly: Following Christ Through the Winds of Change” was recently nominated for the Henri award in the motivational category of the 2018 […]
We can be encouraged by seeing that God deals in absolutes, all the time. Today, let’s look at the further encouragement that we can have because our God does nothing half-way, half-rate, or half-baked. Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by […]
Isaiah 66:1 This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? 2 Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the LORD. “This is the one […]
World angst over the large and small, the first-world problems and the very real ones, stresses over life-as-we-know-it and life-as-we-thankfully-don’t … it can weigh a person down. The prophet Jeremiah in his book of sorrow, Lamentations, describes that downcast feeling…that time when you feel like you’ve had enough and just can’t take it anymore. Lamentations […]
You know, it doesn’t really matter how many times people say it, it’s still not true, when they say that a man cannot represent a woman’s interests. And how thankful I am that two men did! Scripture is clear about such representation: For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made […]
God has blessed me with friendship with some amazing women. One of them is Karen Loss, author of Trekking Through Cancerland . She is a survivor of Stage 4 lung cancer though she never was a smoker. Today, I’d like to share our friendship with you, my readers, so you might be blessed and encouraged […]
Just imagine for a moment if we could earn our way out of our sin predicament and separation from God. I can picture a few different scenarios: We’d be beating each other up for opportunities to earn our way out of Hell. We’d procrastinate, waiting until the last minute like cramming for finals. We’d misjudge […]
Have you ever noticed that at the same time submission has become a dirty word, authority has become an object of hatred? What began as a breakdown of Christian education became a relational breakdown in the home and that became a systemic breakdown in our culture. The circle of chaos repeats, enlarging with every generation. […]
