Never Forget. Never Fear.
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what 9/11 can teach us about the enemy of our souls and our steadfast hope…
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Writing Scared or Scared of Writing: Finding the faith it takes to face my fears
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So many say that as you age, you care less about what people think, but the way the Lord has wired me, I’m not so sure that will ever be entirely true. I am a people pleaser through and through, and lately I find myself questioning is it worth it to go there on certain topics even though I may feel pretty passionate about it.
Read MoreHalf Dome. Double Blessing. Triple Lesson. : Three lessons from a mountain I didn’t even climb
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The world gives us plenty to look at and plenty to fear, but God’s Word gives us something better to look to. Don’t be discouraged by what you see in the world. Be encouraged by what God says in His Word. Feelings are fickle, but He is faithful. His promises are true. He is still on the throne. He will finish the work.
Read MoreThe Great AI Debate: A helpful tool or yet another vice tooling you?
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The danger isn’t AI itself, but rather the temptation to trade the useful tool for the overused vice that renders the user quite useless in the end. I’ve concluded, at least for me personally in matters of creativity, I don’t want to short circuit the very process God is using to shape me. I’ll continue to pray that the wrestling produces wisdom, the discipline develops character, and the effort it takes to create refine the gifts He’s given me.
Read MoreHold on to the Right Things and Let Go of the Rest: A Prescription to Help an Unhealthy Church
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We are holding on to lesser things that are making us lethargic in our faith. We are clinging to ideologies that cannot save us while they wreak havoc in our bodies. We are waging war with the very ones who make up the body of Christ (our own brothers and sisters) rather than with the enemy himself.
Read MoreThe Enemy is Real, but He is Never Right: How recognizing Satan’s predictable tactics helps us be purposeful as we stand together in God’s truth instead of falling for his lies
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He wants to keep us fighting each other, focused on our discrepancies instead of our commonalities. When we remember God's Word, His foundational truth, and what He's called us as believers in Jesus Christ to do, our eyes can remain fixed on Him as our source of strength to turn our fight against the real enemy instead of each other.
Read MoreTalking Like Friends — The Relationship God Has Always Wanted and We Have Always Needed
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I always find such comfort in talking to God throughout the day. He may not be audibly talking back to me, but I hear His voice through His Word, through His creation, and through His people and the song they sing, the words they say, and the things they do.
Read MoreThe Greatest Gift I’ve Ever Received: On turning fifty and what I firmly believe.
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When we believe in Jesus Christ, and accept His free gift of salvation, we never have to fear death. Our bodies may be wasting away, but our spirits are being renewed day by day, by the power of the Holy Spirit Himself, through Jesus Christ, the very son of God, on authority of our Heavenly Father, a Holy God who lavishly loves us throughout eternity, before the day we were born, after the day we die, and every day in between. He not only made you and gave you physical life, He loves you enough to reconcile you back to Him and give you eternal life through His Son.
Read MoreSo Long Shame!: Why I No Longer Play the Blame Game
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Condemnation doesn't push us toward repentance—it pushes us toward isolation. It keeps us focused on ourselves, our failures, and our desperate attempts to fix what only Jesus can redeem. It convinces us that freedom depends on our performance instead of Christ’s finished work.
Read MoreFeeling a Little Numb and Dumb
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Spiritual paralysis can leave us stuck. Spiritual laryngitis can leave us silent. And both can make us feel numb and dumb. But God has a way of replacing both with something better—not louder opinions, but quiet confidence born from His presence. As He draws us closer to His heart, He sharpens our discernment, steadies our steps, and reminds us that our calling isn’t to echo the culture but to reflect Christ.
Read MoreHellos and Goodbyes: learning to live fully in both and in the in-between
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So, as I’ve sought Him more intentionally in my current season and every hello and goodbye it has given me, a couple of secular songs have recently spoken a spiritual message to both my sinful and sanctified heart.
Read MoreMy Man, Our Marriage, His Fatherhood, & My Gratitude
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I am so grateful for my earthly marriage and the way it serves as a physical representation of that spiritual transformation.
Read MoreThe Beauty of Becoming
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God is not finished with us yet. The young still have much to learn, and the old still have much to offer.
Read MoreFinding Rest in Restlessness
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Jesus is pointing out weariness that comes from carrying burdens we were never meant to carry — Religious burdens, emotional burdens, burdens that bear a heavy weight because we must carrying the weight of trying to control everything while we wait on God to work.
Read MoreBeyond Cliché Christianity: A Call to Deeper Faith
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God’s desire is completely different. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit, God is making us whole in Him. Where the enemy destroys, God restores. Where the enemy divides, God unites. Where the enemy condemns, God redeems. Where the enemy hates, God loves. His love was strong enough to defeat death when Jesus was raised to life again, and His love is still at work today defeating the enemy of our souls who is constantly trying to deceive, destroy, and defeat you and me.
Read MoreGod’s Sovereignty and Our Story
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The Bible clearly teaches that salvation belongs to the Lord. Before the foundation of the world, God knew His people and set His love upon them. Scripture speaks of believers as chosen, elect, and predestined according to His purpose. Yet the same Bible also calls every person to repent, believe, and receive Christ with their own free will.
Read MoreLive It Sincerely, Teach It Diligently
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As mothers, we cannot effectively pass down a faith we are not actively living ourselves. Our children may learn Bible stories from our words, but they will learn devotion from the way we live our lives. They notice what captures our attention, what calms our fears, what shapes our priorities, and what fills our conversations. A mother deeply in love with the Lord creates an atmosphere where faith is not merely another lesson to learn, but a way of life.
Read MoreWhen Psalm 23 Sheds Light on the Darkness Around Me
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“The valley of the shadow of death” sounds overwhelming, daunting, and downright depressing—and it is. But notice what David doesn’t say. He doesn’t say he’s stuck there. He says he’s walking through.
Read MoreThe Seasons of Motherhood Give Us More Reasons to Grow
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When my kids were younger, I stressed about mess way too much! If we were having company over, I usually turned into a drill sergeant a few hours prior. I barked orders, demanded perfection, and attempted to mask the visible mess rather than seek a more meaningful approach to tackle the mess together as a team.
Read MoreFrom Fallow to Flourishing: Soul Rest that Leads to Deep Roots and Sweet Fruit
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Too often, we confuse leisure with rest. We fill our free time with more activity, more noise, and more striving. But true rest is found in the more God has in store when our soul truly finds rests in Him. We find that kind of rest by trusting His work on our behalf—the work of creation and redemption, salvation and identity. It is a work that has already been completed. We are not earning our place by doing more. We are receiving it by resting in Him.
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