Study Ephesians With Us This Summer!
I would love for you to join us as we study Ephesians this summer! In six compact chapters, Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus is as cosmic in scope as it is intimate in tender love. We serve a …
Faith over Fear and How To Get There.
I have a confession to make. I am a big scaredy cat. I fear catapulting 35,000 feet above the earth, wedged together with 100 complete strangers. I fear Deep oceans where creatures lurk and toes …
How To Turn Mental Defeat Into Victory
Today the kids and I had one of those mornings. Your truly (yes, that’s me!) woke up on the wrong side of the bed. The side where one emerges from slumber like a grizzly bear out of hibernation. …
Bound By Love: The Women Who Followed Jesus To The Tomb
The women sat opposite the tomb, bereft of the one they loved. They had witnessed Jesus’ cruel march to death, and now, unwilling to lose Him so quickly, they had followed his bloodied body. …
What To Do With Unmet Expectations
Unmet expectations are highly flammable. Light a match and marriages clash, mothers loose their temper, and best of friends fall away. I remember early on in my marriage I would get so angry with my …
God’s Unshakable Kingdom Which Will Never Fail You
It feels like a truly horrid thing to say, but there it stood etched upon the pages of my prayer journal, “God, I feel like you betrayed us!” We had prayed, sought wise counsel and …
Moments Crammed with Mercy
I love listening to the Gospels. Set free from the constraints of reading, my imagination opens up and runs free. Like a screenplay playing in my mind, scenes unfold revealing what mattered most to …
The Servant Who Owed 10,000 Talents. (And how much is 10,000 Talents anyway?)
Have you ever been deeply in debt? I’m not talking about owing your friend $10 for an Uber you split last weekend. I mean, really in deep! Now that I’m a Mom of teenagers I feel the …
Finding Abundant Life in the I AM
I want to tell you a secret. It is a story of my personal prison walls and a slow walk to abundant life. The year is 2004. My husband, an Air Force Pilot, boomeranged across the globe flying …
Resurrection People Living in an Easter World
As I have come to this side of Easter, something new grew in my heart. I gave my mind space for holy imagination, and painted strokes to fill in the picture on the pages. My heart journeyed through …
We Promise the Best is Yet to Come, but What if Tomorrow Holds Tragedy?
We sit in the middle of Holy Week. That place between enthusiastic Hosannas and the crucifixion of a friend and son, teacher and miracle worker. As if following the bullet across the stage of …
Beloved are You
Beloved are you who, like Eve, saw the vine dripping with delicacies and plucked it’s forbidden fruit. Many nights you have grieved a harvest stained by your past. Yet you rise from the ashes, …