My mind is weighty with new old truth. Does the gospel ever just hit you fresh and fiery like the first time again? It’s like digging a well you’ve dug for years when suddenly, fresh, cool water streams in, turning dry cracked earth back into fertile life-bearing soil. Incarnation: a word that typically brings toContinue reading “The Power of Flesh”
Category Archives: Jesus
Child’s Pose
I tuck into “child’s pose” because I am a child. I need His arms to wrap around me.
Finding Jesus
My eyes welled as they scanned the words−each one spreading salve on my current situation. I had just traveled through a dark valley, overcome by depression and wracked with physical sickness. I had spent the night before crying on my bathroom floor to the God Who Sees. I poured over Psalm 116, reliving the bigContinue reading “Finding Jesus”
The Sloth Raising My Kids
Will I find joy in the unseen, private sacrifice of bringing order to chaos within the walls of my home?
Who Really Won the War on Christmas?
We hear it every year, this catch-phrase meant to call us to action. What really is the War on Christmas? Is it over? Who won?
When God Changes Your Plans
Sometimes God changes our plans. Sometimes we find ourselves in the deep end of the pool and our life raft just deflated. What now!?
I’m Moving In: How Should Christians Respond to Those Suffering
For those Valley dwellers, how do we as fellow Image bearers step into a role of responsibility without being overbearing or self-serving?
everyday holy
That my familiar world-view would shift into an everyday kind of Holy.
Psalm 127: The Mommy Psalm
What is it about being a parent that we should be preaching to ourselves, in and outside of parenting, as we prepare to step into the throne room?
The Surprising Way We are Combatting the Grumpies (and winning!)
We are trading our “grumpies” for “thank you’s” because there are deep wells of joy to be explored.