Lines have been on my mind again lately. Cross the line. There are lines in everything, it seems. We often don’t know what they are until a line is crossed. For example, you have had a great working relationship with your boss of two years and then at a holiday party he greets you with […]
This week I had to teach in a remote location early in the morning. I started my car in the chilly fall air and I left my house before sun-up. With each mile, there were less gas stations and drive-thru lines at fast food joints as I ventured further into blackness with headlights as the […]
This photo was taken 28 years ago this weekend, when church friends threw me a baby shower and I went into labor on Halloween night and gave birth to twin girls the next morning. Those babies were God’s grace to me. I suspect most mother’s would say their kids are God’s grace to them, but […]
The brevity of life is on my mind this week for several reasons. I am participating in a bible study on this topic, I am remembering the death of my brother 35 years ago this month, and this week my friend Ron Pershall went home to be with Jesus at 6:45 p.m. October 20, while […]
Henri Nouwen, the internationally renowned priest and author, has identified five lies of identity that are common to people. See you if agree. 1) I am what I have. 2) I am what I do. 3) I am what other people say or think of me. 4) I am nothing more than my worst moment. […]
This past weekend, I attended a Glory conference featuring Jackie Hill Perry who wrote the just published book, Holier Than Thou. Besides amazing worship, Jackie gave three talks on the holiness of God, idolatry and sanctification. In her talk about idolatry she made the comment, “Social media makes us feel like God.” Zing! This made […]
As the world appears to be spinning out of control and most of us do not know which end is up at any given moment, the concept of rest has been coming up in podcasts, conversations, and in my Bible study this week in Hebrews. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people […]
My house flooded three weeks ago. This week I took the first baby steps to put things back together again. On my way home from work, I stopped at a flooring store. It was overwhelming. I had trouble making sense of the differences between which samples were real wood, laminate, or vinyl, and which were […]
I spend a lot of time thinking and speaking about this verse: When we were dead in our trespasses (Ephesians 2:5) Dead people can do absolutely nothing to save themselves. I have done all I know to do as a teacher to communicate to people that we were dead in our sin and Jesus had […]
What does it look like to live surrendered? For quite some time I have been praying this prayer almost daily to express my trust and surrender to the Lord: I will fear nothing today because in You alone I already have all I need to respond well to whatever happens (Philippians 1:27; 2 Corinthians 9:8). […]
