I saw a post run through my news feed: “Church acts in irrational generosity to help refugees” and my heart smiled. I’ve seen a lot of fear and anger and debate the last several weeks, but as we enter a giving season I hope we can all learn to be “irrationally generous.” It’s time to […]
Why I Still Think We Need to Help Syrian Refugees
After everything that has happened, I still fully believe we should be reaching out to help Syrian Refugees. Last Friday people lost lives in Paris, and it has been discovered that at least one of the perpetrators may have found their way into the country through the Syrian Refugee Crisis. (Edit: Current reports state that […]
Hope in the Face of Evil
Grief grips my heart today, today of all days. On this day we remember the shock, the complete horror, and the death. Do we have Hope in the Face of such Evil? Has the world climbed out of this pit of terror? Or only sunk more deeply? On this day, this anniversary of the falling […]
Why We Expect God To Be A Fairy-God-Mother In Marriage
Marriage is a very hard thing. It is often not at all what we thought it would be. I’ve been contemplating this thought lately, as I’ve watched so many struggle in marriage, as I’ve watched some marriages even fail, and as I’ve watched some struggle with the question of “why?” We can feel betrayed, not […]
Gossip, Slander, Social Media, and You: A Christian Perspective
Social Media. It’s consuming our lives. Social Media gives us a window into each others lives, and a platform to speak our opinions. But Social Media has also become a curse to many. It’s in Social Media a persons entire reputation, even their lives, can be ripped to shreds in hours with nothing but tweets. […]
Let’s Talk: Continueing An Honest Conversation About Abortion
Ann Voskamp wrecks me. If you’ve not read her blog at aholyexperience.com or her book [ad name=”Amazon One Thousand Gifts Text Link”] I highly recommend both. She absolutely wrecks me. Because she doesn’t shy away from the hard things. I have a hard time writing about hard things. Oh I know I can talk about […]
Tossing No Stones
My heart aches inside me, it breaks. I see such hate, such disgust, so many pointed fingers. But most of all, I see pain. A person, genetically male, has called himself female. One side rises, in triumph, in rejoicing over freedom of expression of self. The other side rises vehemently in disgust and condemnation. And […]
Am I an Enviromentalist?
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own […]
What Kind of Listener Are You?
Conflict. Anger. Offence. They can kill our relationships and our families. Destroy our trust in each other and cause quite a lot of pain. And so much of it can be prevented simply in how we listen to each other. A while ago I was watching something and I saw out of the corner of […]
Grace for the Beast
Sometimes I think I see the world in a somewhat odd way. I’m extremely analytical, and very sympathetic. When I hear of the horrors and atrocities committed by people I’m caught up in the question, “why?” I look for reasons, reasonable ones, that could have led this person down this road to become the person that […]