When we expect an outcome, we sometimes hear what we want to hear. The disciples had an entirely different end in mind.

He said Practice Not Perfect You know when you read a really familiar passage of scripture and see something you’ve seen a hundred times,...

Every summer our family meditates on a verse a week together. It's a manageable way to implant God's word in our hearts.

What do you find yourself counting? Is it what counts? What do you constantly inventory the most? Satan wants to incite us to count...

There are things I plant that I feel like no one sees. You too? But that isn’t the truth, when I plant in love, God sees, God multiplies,...

Love, it’s the hardest command that masquerades as something that should come naturally. Why is loving people so hard? The problem with...

Satan has a secret weapon in his arsenal. You see, once we have confessed our sins, they can’t limit us anymore. This freedom scares him...

We make confession into a bully when he's really our friend.

The truth is we don’t want to do the small things. We want to “Go Big or Go Home”, but going home is big.

I seem to always measure my day in tangible things I got done, but that's not how God measures my day.

I’ve been thinking about hope since before we started Advent traditions. This first week of advent focuses on hope, we lit the hope...

The night before Thanksgiving and we are...behind. This is the first year that I haven't started our thankfulness tree until the week of...

In the fallout of the election many of us are wondering what our place is, what does God require of us? How does God want me to respond?

“There’s not much hope for a person who won’t live in the grace he’s given.”

... but my flowers aren't really rattled. they don't seem to understand what is going on, or maybe they actually remember who is in charge

Today is my day to reflect on the 14 years of her life and all the years left to be written. The best gift I can give her is prayer.

My last blog promised practical ways to get God's word in your life and family... This is it! I love the translation of this charge in...

“Only take care and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all...

No matter how your school year has started, one thing is sure: our homes need Jesus.

I did. I said ‘slow it down” because I know that if we don’t learn what we need to learn in 2020, then we’re not really moving on in 2021.