Weekly Inspiration: Surrendering Our Idols

Weekly Inspiration: Surrendering Our Idols

I can still remember being nine years old, sitting in my grandparents’ basement, watching the movie The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, completely enthralled for all three hours and forty minutes of run time. The scene of the Israelites worshipping the golden...
Spreading the Gospel in Australia

Spreading the Gospel in Australia

This past January, my husband Steve and I were blessed to travel to Armidale, Australia, on behalf of Renewal Ministries to work with the Immaculata Community, a religious community made up of religious sisters, brothers (including one newly ordained transitional...
Weekly Inspiration: Zeal and Contemplation

Weekly Inspiration: Zeal and Contemplation

Every year, I begin January with a renewed focus and direction on where the Lord is leading. Historically, I will discern a word or Scripture and then the Lord will direct me to a saint to be a friend on the journey. This year, I was excited about the verse Christ put...
Weekly Inspiration: More of Him

Weekly Inspiration: More of Him

Recently, the Lord has been asking me to hand some new parts of my life over to Him. This might sound like an obvious necessity of the Christian walk—to surrender to the Lord all that keeps us from Him in thought, word, or deed. However, in my current situation, the...
Weekly Inspiration: Keeping Our Hands to the Plow

Weekly Inspiration: Keeping Our Hands to the Plow

As someone who has a testimony rife with themes from the Prodigal Son, my relationship with the Lord is heavily sewn with the thread of his saving grace in my life. Recently, I have found myself recalling certain memories, habits, and decisions that I had made during...