It hurts, watching the world splintering in fear. It hurts so much, and I grieve over so much pain. I get online and it’s the first thing I see in the morning, more fear: Another shooting. I’m not shocked, I’m horrified and grieved but not shocked. I hate that I’m not shocked. And I feel the […]
Numbers: God Cares About Our Blessing
With how much Israel kept rebelling and complaining against God, you’d think He wouldn’t mind so much when a King hires a man to try to curse them. Yet even with all of Israel’s sin, He will not allow the man to speak anything but blessing over His people. But God said to Balaam, “Do […]
Acts Bible Study: Trusting in Obedience
Wow! So much happens in these next chapters of our Acts Bible Study! It’s hard to find just one thing to write about! So quickly does this new church face persecution and death, but also so quickly do we see examples of God’s power and might. [Tweet ” it is very rare that God does things […]
Acts: Begin With Prayer
Can you imagine? Imagine the excitement! The anticipation! Christ is risen and you have seen Him! You know the whole world will never be the same! What is going to happen next? As I started my study in Acts this morning the passage that stood out to me was this one particular verse: He said to […]
7 Apps to Help You Engage Your Faith
In honor of The YouVersion Bible apps new redesign, today I’m going to share with you seven apps I use in my daily devotion time! “There’s an app for that.” has been a fairly common refrain for quite awhile now, to the point that the phenomena is rather old news, but the huge resource that is […]
Book Review: Undone by Michele Cushatt
What happens to you when the very foundations of your life shakes? In a sense, that is the question that is all through this book, Undone, a Memoir by Michele Cushatt. In an intimate glimpse into another persons journey she takes you along with her as she travels through experiences that would rock the world […]
Beauty For Ashes
As life defining moments go, it was one of those big ones. I was fifteen. I was sitting up on the roof of our house. I’d been told earlier that I was sick, some type of hepatitis. My world had shattered, even then I didn’t know how much. All I knew at that point was that […]
Grateful for Weakness and Foolishness
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 There are times I’ll cling to this verse. I can so often feel so […]
Seven Things I Wish Someone Had Said To Me When My Baby Was In The NICU
This is a post I’ve considered writing for a long time. It’s been a couple years since my 12 week NICU experience and the following months of feeding tube drama, yet I’ll be honest, some of the wounds still haven’t healed. In truth my daughter had very little going on with her compared to all […]
Rest In Him
We are broke. And I’m not just talking treading water broke, I’m talking under water, drowning, not even gasping for air because there isn’t any air, broke. Our bills this week amount to about three times the size of our paycheck. And that is after getting help for rent and food and scrimping and cutting […]