To have children is to find out just how out of control we truly are.
Read More“But what I am learning as a parent is that rather than try and save my children, I need to show them what to do when things are difficult because, friends, there will always be difficulty.”
Read MoreJesus asks us to do things that seem backwards but it is because He knows our human hearts. He knows that if we do not pray for our persecutors we risk becoming just like them.”
Read MoreBut Dolly’s work with her employees and poor children definitely sparks my imagination, and hopefully yours too, of what the Kingdom coming to earth looks like.
Read More“As I redeem the wall and make it beautiful, I remind myself that God is doing the same thing in the world. That He is alive and well and at work. That paint, like love, can cover over a multitude of nicks, scrapes, and sins.”
Read More“God is the same God on the other side of a painted room.”
Read More“I am learning to ask God to lift the veil so that I might catch a glimpse of His presence.”
Read More“No matter what has happened, no matter what has been lost or marred or broken or destroyed. Come and see the one who is making all things new. The one who loves you in all your hardest places.”
Read MoreThe only way we can truly “choose joy” is to choose Jesus.
Read MoreHope is a person and his name is Jesus.
Read More“And maybe, just maybe, we can reach across the aisle, the pew, the hallway and the street to offer a helping hand. And in so doing we can hold onto an egg or two, lighten the load just a bit.”
Read More“God was reminding me that I could ask for Help even if I had no idea what I needed and no idea how it could come about. God’s imagination is vastly greater than my own.”
Read MoreJesus wants to heal our past for the sake of our future.
Read More“The journey is greater than you or I. But, here is the good news - God is greater than the journey.”
Read More“God - help me see this situation with new eyes.”
Read More“I realized that a Resurrection Sunday service is the exact right place to cry about loss. It is the perfect place to lay bare our grief.”
Read More“The good work of God is often beyond our imagination.”
Read More“Lent reminds us that “becoming” always involves the death of something. New life can come no other way.”
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