When We Face Something Scary, Let’s Be Brave Together
Are we still on for tomorrow? Yep. You sure you want to do this? Yep. It’s kinda scary. I know. We’ll be brave together. These messages ping ponged between my sister and me late one evening. We were overdue for a sister date, and she had a gift card to a new...
Tips to Pray When You Don’t Know How to Pray
Have you ever found yourself in a situation so overwhelming you didn’t know how to pray about it? Ten years into our marriage, my husband, David, lost his job. He went to work one Monday morning and returned an hour later with a pink slip in his hand. We had two...
Do You Know How to Recognize These Two Ways the Holy Spirit Speaks to Us?
Have you ever heard God speak? If you’re a Christian, you have the ability to hear God speak every day, because the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, lives inside you. Ephesians 1:13-14 describes this. “When you believed, you were marked in him with a...
Three Daily Habits to Transform Your Life
My boss, a dentist, often says, “What you do every day will either kill you or keep you.” Case in point—one day a college student who worked at a fast-food restaurant came in for his semi-annual dental checkup. We found 12 cavities. When we quizzed him about his...
Are You Struggling to Believe the Bible? Here’s One More Reason You Can
When I first became a Christian, I believed the Bible by faith, but not everyone does. Many struggle to believe the Bible. In the 35+ years since I became a Christian, I’ve discovered there are other very strong reasons to believe the Bible is the inspired...
Is Life Really Meaningless, or Do We Owe King Solomon an Apology?
Apparently I owe King Solomon an apology. He’s never been my favorite historical figure, for good reason. God gave him so much—money, opportunity, wisdom—and he wasted it. I often ponder what he could have accomplished if he’d used his gifts to advance God’s...