Weekly Inspiration: Peace in the Storm

Weekly Inspiration: Peace in the Storm

Context is everything, isn’t it? Lately, I’ve been seeking out more context when reading the Gospels by reading the stories before and after the one I am focusing on. Most recently, I was reading a story we have all read many times: Jesus walks on water during a storm...
Weekly Inspiration: Childlike Joy

Weekly Inspiration: Childlike Joy

As my small children have reached different milestones in their lives, it has been such a gift to see them continue to wonder at being on earth and having a soul. My son recently was expressing how wild it is just “to be alive,” and I remember having similar thoughts...
Weekly Inspiration: Waiting with Eager Longing

Weekly Inspiration: Waiting with Eager Longing

“For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope.” (Rom. 8:19-20) Sometimes life can simply be so heavy and hard, a...
Pursuing Healing and Wholeness

Pursuing Healing and Wholeness

I like to begin my testimony by saying that my mom and dad are great people, and I love them dearly. They came into their marriage fairly broken and so their brokenness manifested quickly. My mom ended up needing to leave the home and go into the hospital for an...
Who Deserves Your Ultimate Allegiance?

Who Deserves Your Ultimate Allegiance?

I recently read a book that I found very compelling and insightful for this moment we are living in. The book is called Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like the Early Church by Stephen Presley. I was captivated by this idea of cultural sanctification. We...