Stunningly beautiful. I read the comment on someone’s social media page. I cannot remember who wrote it or what it referred to — someone’s physical beauty or words written. Maybe it referred to God’s beautiful creation. It reminded me of a time many years ago when a...
Faith-Driven Joy Blog
What Keeps You up at Night?
I woke up to blessed quiet. It had been many weeks — almost two months — of noises in the attic awakening me or scuffling between my office walls and the outside brick frustrating and distracting me. My sons and I couldn’t determine its identity. One morning the...
Ordinary People
As King David stays hidden from his son Absalom, two men risk their lives to report to David Absalom’s plan to take over the kingdom. (2 Samuel 17:17-21) Because they had been seen leaving the city, a man in Bahurim allowed these messengers to hide in his well. His...
Straight to the Source
David’s escape from Absalom drove him to God. Although he had had many victories in his life, David committed many sins, as we all do. Yet he knew who to turn to, who to cry out to, who would be sure to answer.
A Bump in the Road
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...
Rescue
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...





