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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

It’s time to water our faith. At this moment, 2020 feels long, waiting seems forever. I need to water my faith with expectation.

It is our job to teach them that there is a Right and a Wrong and then lead them where to go when it gets grey.

I challenge you this summer not just to put these verses up for your children to learn, but do this with them and let it in your soul too

If time never passed, I wouldn’t notice things. Time carries with it the gift of appreciation.

Nature is waking up all around us. God’s timing this perfectly. Promise is coming, it’s undetected yet, but it’s coming. Just like...

We get to choose what we will do with it. Even though it seems like everything is beyond our control right now, it isn't. We have time.

I think God has a growth chart wall just like the one I have for my children. I’m pretty sure His isn’t located in the kitchen like mine.

I’m learning that I can’t rely on my own feelings for love. Feelings are far too fickle and fragile things to depend on

I’ve started really examining my thoughts. I am actually in charge of what gets to stay in my heart and mind. I don’t have to own every thou