Unbolted from My Love Affair with This World
When life comes crashing down, knowing I don’t belong “here” and that this earth is not my Home, fuels my journey with hope…
What Drives My Actions?
What structures are you intentionally building into your daily life that will act as weight bearing walls when life crashes down on your…
What’s My Worldview?
The family room looked like a scene out of a Hallmark movie. The fireplace glowed, Christmas lights twinkled, and five of our grandchildren quietly explored their…
A Pilgrimage Fueled by Hope ~ Week 1
In her book, Pursue the Intentional Life, Jean Flemingsss tells the story of a man whose lifelong disciplines and creativity saved his life when the…
57 Cents and a Little Girl
I’ve learned by mistake that everything I read on social media is not true so I will often check out the validity of the article. So before sharing…
Who is William Carey?
William Carey would probably be shocked by the way God used his passion for evangelism to impact millions of people…
I Can Plod
The Widow starts to see hope in the mundane. Elisha's directive in response to her answer had to be even more confusing, but this…
Hope in the Mundane
What does attempting GREAT THINGS FOR GOD look like in a dying church, a young pastor's family, a defeated congregation of people longing…
How Can I Help You?
What a beautiful question for anyone to ask someone in misery. Elisha’s first words must have fanned the spark of hope in this broken woman. But then…
Help Me, Please!
"I need help! My preacher husband is dead! We're out of money. The bill collectors are coming to enslave my two sons as payment for all of our…
Attempt Great Things for God
We were twenty-one-year-old newly-weds, in New York City for the Billy Graham Crusade School on Evangelism. During a seminar in an…
I Will Not Fail You
Stop for a moment and let this truth sink in. In the middle of your deep grief, daughter or son of the King, when you are so afraid of the future you can barely breathe, so terrified of…
The Best Present
The angel and the message of the angel terrified Mary. How do we know? Because the angel commanded: Do not be afraid, Mary. These few words reminded Mary…
My Platform for Glorifying God, Part 2
Every circumstance becomes an eternal opportunity to reflect Jesus. If you are struggling with loss, I know this is hard. Grief is hard work and…
My Platform for Glorifying God
Like countless women before me, I have sat at Mary’s feet in dark moments, longing to see inside her heart and hear her story of bearing the…
I Am Doing a New Thing
Perhaps you are in a dark place where you dread Christmas. I get that. I was there for a very long time. To this day, over twenty years after the deaths of our son…
Mary’s Song of Praise: The Magnificat
Mary the mother of Jesus joins our motley band as we Journey to Christmas. Imagine her joy-filled eyes as she runs to embrace Tamar the Forgotten One, Rahab the Harlot, Bathsheba the Abused and…
A New Thing
The core value of Solomon’s Book of the Proverbs is the fear of God. Where did Solomon learn this principle? Who taught Solomon how to…
Beauty for Ashes
For the rest of her life, Bathsheba paid a high price for the lustful desires of David. What would have happened if she had refused to…