Oct 30, 2019 | Courage, Fear & Doubt, Image of God
I am honored to partner with CBN. This article is also featured as the CBN Daily Devotion. I did not grow up going to church. As such, Halloween seemed a harmless annual opportunity to amass delicious chocolate treats. Nevertheless, looking back, I will never forget...
Sep 24, 2019 | Character of God, Poems, Prayer
I would never call myself a poet. However, every so often, God stirs my heart to write a poem. Usually I write them in response to either heartache for our broken world or praise for our glorious God – or both. I wrote this poem about five years ago while...
Sep 3, 2019 | Courage, Fear & Doubt, Follow Christ (Count the Cost)
The wind is howling, a storm is raging, the boat is swamped . . . and Jesus is in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. Shaking Jesus from His slumber, the disciples cry out, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” (Mark 4:37-38). These seasoned sailors would have...
Jul 30, 2019 | Adoption, Eternity & Heaven & Hell, Thankfulness
It was a cool winter day when a newborn baby was left at the door of an orphanage. No one knew where she came from or the day she had been born. As the child grew, she dreamed about her future family. She imagined her adoptive father and mother and the home they would...
Jul 12, 2019 | Christian Life, Perseverance, Prayer
I’ll never forget the day. I was a new Christian and sat down for what I knew would be barely a 5-minute Quiet Time. Convicted, I confessed to God, “I know something has been standing in the way. I wake up and rush to work and barely spend a few minutes with...
Jul 4, 2019 | Courage, Fear & Doubt, Follow Christ (Count the Cost)
“Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants Thereof”- inscription on the Liberty Bell Celebrating Freedom What a mission! These words are inscribed on the bell that rang out at the first reading of our country’s Declaration of...
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