Beautiful Women of Faith: Tamar

              Her story is one of the most unsettling stories in all of the Bible. Tamar had a husband so wicked, the Lord “slew” him according to Genesis 38:7. The cultural requirement of the day called for his brother to marry her and give her a child that would carry on her first husband’s …

Consumed with Jesus: 2 Peter 1

By the third night of dreaming about all the details of Charlie Kirk’s murder and his murderer, I finally realized that I needed a social media break. Nearly every post on my social media feed and every news article in my news apps centered on this tragic event. While I grieve the state our country …

Casting Burdens

I am away from my computer this weekend, but this thought so encouraged me this week, I wanted to share it with you. I hope it encourages you as much as it did me. There are burdens in life that are so heavy, we must seek God’s help to carry them. The longer we attempt …

Worship: Adorned with Grace

Small children in Christian schools can be so hilarious. As a class lined up in opposition for a fierce, fake snowball fight last week, the “L” sign on the forehead with the accompanying taunts of “Loser” came out in full force. As the children’s PE coach, I asked the ringleader what the Bible said about …

Grateful

The pages of the small New Testament rustled in the hands of the man next to me on the flight home yesterday. In a heavily accented voice, he asked me if I knew what he held. I smiled and nodded, as I looked up from my book. He explained that he had been jailed in …