Sometimes things don’t turn out as you plan. No real secret there, right? As my son loaded up a bed frame to take to his first “home away from home” at college, he casually said the frame was secure in the back of the pickup. However, at the first significant bump in...
John 8: 1-11 tells a story of a woman caught in adultery. The scribes and the Pharisees brought her to Jesus to test Him. Thrown into the sand, she awaited the sting of the stones that would crush her and seal her fate. She was guilty. She knew it. Her accusers knew...
We got reacquainted while seated by each other at a funeral. I shared some things from my heart. She committed to pray for me. And she has done just that. At random times, I receive a text with scripture and words of encouragement. Each time, they meet a specific and...
Fifty-four years ago this week, my dad suffered a debilitating accident that changed his life. I can only imagine what it must have been like for my mom during those touch-and-go days in the hospital. Well, some of that experience I know firsthand. Then she endured...
As I prepared to move without a house to move to, I told my friend Elizabeth that it had taken an army of warriors praying on my behalf to get me through this season of uncertainty. And that is what God has done. Some old friends. Some new. Some young. Some old. All...
I saw myself in scripture today. I read the story of Gideon in Judges 6 and 7. I didn’t see myself in the way you might think — the prophet Gideon leading people to conquer the Midianites. (The Midianites had oppressed Israel to the point they were hiding out in caves...