Four Reasons We Hold to Hope in God

Four Reasons We Hold to Hope in God

  Four Reasons to Hold to Hope in Difficult Seasons I don’t bother to stem the flow of hot tears as they track a trail down my face–marking a testimony of grief and frustration on the pages of my prayer journal. For over ten years, I’ve huddled in this...
Misinformation and the Lie that God Doesn’t Care

Misinformation and the Lie that God Doesn’t Care

  Misinformation. Five simple syllables loaded with meaning. A glance at the baseword and affixes reveal the meaning, “to inform wrongly”. In a confused culture, news, politics, and basic data are suddenly less clear. Clouded But misinformation by any other...
Three Steps to Overcoming Fear

Three Steps to Overcoming Fear

When Fear Crowds Your Thoughts Six months into the year and I wait in another doctor’s office. The muted tones on the walls fail to calm my anxious heart; instead, I perch near the large picture window on a stiff plastic chair, my fingers drumming the laminate table....
Chosen for Such a Time as This

Chosen for Such a Time as This

It was difficult to ignore her emaciated appearance. Ribs pressed through a fine layer of white fur and, despite the cat’s apparent lack of ownership, she should have been plump and healthy. Our early 1960’s-era cul-de-sac was strangely situated among the thick pine...
Learning to Rejoice in Difficult Circumstances

Learning to Rejoice in Difficult Circumstances

The throbbing is real but intangible. Painful but unseen. It’s the shattering of a heart already broken experiencing one more journey in the wasteland. Have you been in this place before? In the same sort of circumstance where your dreams are dashed by reality...