How to Love and Live in 3 Directions
The scene starts in Mark 12 when a first-century lawyer asks Jesus a question. “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” The question seems to be motivated by a pretty good instinct. (Just because he’s a lawyer doesn’t …
Leaving a Spiritual Legacy
How do you leave a spiritual legacy? Earlier this year, the mother of a friend of mine passed away. My friend received a couple of her mother’s Bibles as keepsakes. One was the Bible her mother had received when she …
How to Kill Gossip
All teams, businesses, and families have a language. These are the catchphrases and shortcuts known mostly to insiders. Christians have a language, too. Assuming you are part of a local church, it too will have a language. Hang around for …
Spend A Year With Jesus
The goal of spending a year with Jesus is to learn how to pray. Our prayers do not start with us. They start with Jesus. Before we ever open our mouths in prayer, Jesus is praying for us. Despite much …
Bankruptcy and Transforming Grace
Bankrupt! The word has a dreadful ring to it. In fact, it is more than a word, it’s an expression. It means failure, insolvency, inability to pay one’s debts, perhaps financial ruin. Even in our lax and permissive society, being …
Jesus’ Prayer on the Worst Night of His Life
Have you ever heard someone pray for you? Depending on the setting and the status of your heart, it could be unnerving or humbling or empowering or healing. Sometimes it’s all of the above. But when someone starts to speak …
What are you not doing because you think it’s too late or it might be too hard?
My friend Ellie Lofarro is a “Why not?” kind of girl. She’s always up for an adventure. She recently went on a mission trip to Costa Rica. Afterward I had to smile when she wrote: The mission trip to Costa …
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Take Up the Shield of Faith
One of the flaming missiles I frequently have to battle is my feeling of being totally imperfect and unworthy of God’s love. I doubt His ability to mold me and use me as He pleases. Of course, the Lord wants …
My Family Manifesto
For many young women, life just sort of happens to them. They don’t give much thought about where they want to go and what they want their lives to look like. In their families, that means they just get by. …