What I Really Want to Say…
Have you ever had something you wanted to say, but your words got in the way?
Shatter the Image
I think we’d all like to break our mirrors and throw them away at times. They help us and they hurt us. Ultimately, sometimes they control us. Recently I had the opportunity to talk to teenage girls about friend drama, or perhaps more accurately, girl drama. I hate it when people stereotype what girls are like, myself…
What if?
What if Donald Trump is elected as the next President of the United States? What if Hillary Clinton is elected as the next President of the United States? On November 8th I will go to the polls and vote, just as I always have since I came of age. Then I will be glad it’s…
Looking for God’s Work
I’ve been more than a little distracted the past few weeks by this glorious autumn season. I’m accomplishing the urgent things, but I’ve slacked on my commitment to blog through our current study, ‘Experiencing God.’ Instead, I’ve been spending time outside, particularly on the family farm, and often in the woods. I’m totally nerding-out on fungi this…
Experiencing God?
My favorite day of all time was August 9, 2014. Glacier National Park had been on my bucket list for many years, and we were there! I was with my family in the midst of the most beautiful country I have ever seen. My dream of hiking the Alps faded into the background at Glacier. I…
A Gracious Spirit
I’ve been in a little bit of a funk for a few weeks, struggling with some decisions and change that came into my life. Maybe, if you’re like me, you struggle in times of change too. You wonder whether you’ve heard God right, wavering as to whether the current change is related to a lack of listening,…
Way Beyond Me
In a little over a month, our daughter Katy will leave to spend her fall semester studying in Italy. There she will complete classes for her Biblical Studies major, including studying the Italian Reformation in the land where it all took place. After that, she hopes to spend another semester in Germany and Switzerland during the 500th anniversary of…
He Himself is Our Peace
“If someone had written this year in the news as a novel, I would have ridiculed the plot as amateurishly unrealistic.” -Russell Moore Grieved? Helpless? Disgusted? Numb? What’s next? Massacres, shootings, hatred, terror, racism, murder, crazy politics, religious liberty in question, a nation that is divided on so many issues we can’t even name them…
Two Kinds of Grace
Tonight as I completed our mowing, the sun was hanging low in the sky and tucking itself away for the evening. Maybe you saw it too, and like me, you were treated to a glorious, changing display of color and movement, the skies adrift with white billowing clouds and a darkening background. The moon rose…
Organic Discipleship
Perhaps many of us understand the idea of discipleship as the process, through discipline, of becoming like the one we follow. For the Christian, discipleship means becoming more like Jesus Christ. As His followers we are right with God and holy in Christ from salvation, but from that time forward we begin to grow so that our…