{The first in a 3-part series} Is it possible you believe fairy tales about God? When I was a child I loved reading fairy tales and make-believe stories. Somehow the lessons from those stories affected my view of God. Though I also grew up going to church, when I became a new Christian in my […]
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A few years ago I saw a tweet from my son and I always read what my sons post on Twitter. Ben linked this article, The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies, and said in his tweet, “something I need to work on immediately.” Impressed with his transparency I opened the article and began […]
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Three rectangular baskets sit in the bottom of the linen closet in our upstairs hallway. Willingly they open their arms to receive all the things I’ve decided I don’t need anymore: shoes, belts, a decades old set of heated hair rollers. These containers were so stuffed that the doors almost wouldn’t shut. So after putting […]
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“What lust is for men, comparison is for women,” said my friend Joanne. She is right. The perpetually ugly sin of men, even old men, lusting after women has been exposed recently…again and again and again…in dozens of powerful men. We rightly say it is evil, selfish, an abuse of power. But do we women […]
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“For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.” 1 Timothy 4:4 Do you ever dread all the things you have to do in a day? I used to. I’d hear myself thinking—and sometimes even saying out loud—I have to make my kids lunch. I […]
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