Honoring God with What We Have
How many times have we heaved out a sigh and peeled ourselves up from the floor of failure to will all of our might to reignite so we could start over? Again. Back to square one. Again. Defeat underneath our feet. A long journey up ahead. We wonder if we …
Have you ever watched the movie The Money Pit with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long? It’s a classic 80s movie about a couple who buy a house that seems too good to be true. They soon find out it’s not too good to be true- the house isn’t good. They hire …
I share my story because Jesus removes my shame. Removes, not removed, because I am human and broken and need Him to remove it again and again. God may have the power to forget our sin (Isaiah 43:25), but we are mostly unable to forget anything on our own- without …
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. Matthew 12:33 Saturdays are tough in the suburbs. Things get a little tense when you cram a bunch of cranky people in an SUV …
I sit in the waiting room passing time, wondering what’s next, and planning for things that may or may not ever happen. Call it worry, call it dreaming, call it smart preparation. For me it is stillness. It is patience. It is faith. I never know what news will come …
