Last Words on Love Are Not to Be Forgotten
My face flushed with shame. “I can’t sit across the table and pretend this never happened,” a friend recently admitted. I have hurt a valued friend. I never intended to alienate my friend, but now there is misunderstanding and resentment where...
Knowing + Doing = Blessing
We sat down at the table, the steam rising from bowls of homemade soup. I looked across the table at my friend, a mom of four children with a world of experience. Pregnant with my first child, I was grateful for the time to learn about this...
Five Powerful Truths About Discipleship to Embrace Today
Don’t reduce discipleship to a dry concept stuffed tight with information that withers unused on the back shelves of our lives. There is life to be lived well in the reality of being a disciple. God wants to teach and train us how to live...
Trusting God: A Guest Post
. In God We Trust “In God We Trust.” It says it right on the dollar bill. But what about those times in our lives when we desperately need answers and can’t find them? Or when we are scared to do what we think God is calling us...
Are You Using Your Spiritual Gifts?
1. You have a gift. Yes, you! As a believer in Christ, God has given you a spiritual gift. When it comes to calling and gifts we are often far more concerned with what we think we can’t do, rather than with what God can do. Remember Moses,...
The Reason We Let Them See: A Guest Post by Dr. Deb Waterbury
My youngest son, Miles, and I have a unique mother/son relationship. We most definitely relate on a familial level, but also he appreciates my counsel. As a minister, much of what I do for women is counsel, but rarely does a parent experience...
From Frantic to Settled: Inner Room Living in a Busy Life
When Martha Learns to be Mary My brain is always working, spewing out thoughts and feelings. When my brain isn’t in conversational overdrive, activity is the name of the game. Doing and productivity push me to want to conquer my...
Lessons from Mary and Martha: The Power of Also
[tweetthis]Things that bother us have a way of piling up, don’t they?[/tweetthis] ‘But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for...
Truth to Hang Onto in the Hard
When my mother was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer, I was thousands of miles away, living in Japan. I struggled with why God allowed such a devastating diagnosis to come three weeks after my Marine husband left for a six-month deployment....
