The following statements may surprise you. Anger is not a sin. Anger is not a result of the Fall. Anger is not straight out of Satan's toolbox. Anger, instead, is part of God's image that He placed within man at creation. The emotion of anger stems from God's holiness and His love. More than …
Mercy and Truth
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Psalm 85:10 Often, while living in a fallen world, the lines are blurred between victim and perpetrator. Nothing so vividly illustrates this blurring of lines than the account of the adulterous woman brought to Jesus for justice in John 8:1-11. Her …
The Prince of Peace
A movie set in the 1950's reminded me that mistrust and divisions between race, political parties, and classes are not new. They are woven into human DNA. Hatred stems from Adam's first decision to disobey God, which resulted in the murder of his second son. Abel's innocence did not protect him from Cain's rage, and …
Unshakeable Truth in a World of Chaos
Pictures should reveal the whole story. Yet, in a world of artificial intelligence and social media perfection, the entire story can be easily edited to convey an entirely different narrative, contradicting the truth. Recent photos depicting the anti-ICE riots in Minnesota convey two very different narratives. Photos and statements are manipulated to influence people …
The Contradiction of Sinners
Happy 2026, my friends! I hope your year is off to a great start, and you have made some commitments that are helping you form healthy new routines. For those of you who are sticking to a new Bible reading schedule, I am praying that you stay faithful and that it becomes your new …
A Fixed Hope
Hope There is always something about reading the final chapters of Revelation in the days leading up to the new year that reignites my momentum for what is ahead. This year, I enjoyed looking back to the beginning of my Scripture journal to see how His Word shaped my thinking throughout 2025. In January of …
A Broken Christmas
Teaching Latin has introduced me to the history of the Roman Empire surrounding the time of Jesus's birth. For example, the Latin words for the numbers seven-Septem, eight-Octavus, nine-Novem, and ten-Decem all align with the ending months from our calendar. However, the numbers are off by two. September is now our ninth month, October our …
Beautifully Messy Becoming
For many of us, this has been a difficult year. As I sat down to write out my Thanksgiving reflections from each month of this last year, my first one listed the hard, heart-rending things. With nearly monthly regularity, there was another difficult struggle to record. I will spare you the details because there is …
Beautiful Women of Faith: Faltering, yet Finding Him Faithful
On the morning of my youngest child's eighteenth birthday, nostalgia and hope fight for priority. Nostalgia looks at the regrets and joyful memories of the past; hope sees how God will work it all together to shape this young woman's own journey of faith. No mother can automatically pass on her faith. She can only …
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Beautiful Women of Faith: The Prayer that Revived a Nation
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then …
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His Song in the Night 