Tag: Week 3 // Friday

Loving Our Leadership

  Have you ever been in a church where the leadership is untrustworthy? Where the teaching has been unbiblical or very shallow? We went to a church once where the main text of the sermon was a magazine article! The Bible was just an add on. Needless to say we

Read More »

The Bottom Line

At the end of every month, millionaires and single moms alike look at the books to examine the bottom line. A rich man wants to know if his well-planned investments yielded a profit. A single mom on a budget is praying she has enough pennies to pay the bills. When

Read More »

Hands Extended and Hearts Full

My hands were empty, and my heart was broken. I sat at home on the 3-day leave from work after my miscarriage and blindly stared at the blinking computer screen in front of me. I’d tried reading my Bible, but was unable to focus past a verse or two. I

Read More »

A Call to Love our Enemies

In Proverbs 25:21, Solomon, who is known as “the wisest man who ever lived,” gives us a front row seat on insight to loving people well and what it truly looks like when we put it to work in our lives. He issues a challenge to believers by saying we

Read More »

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Come to Bethlehem and see Him whose birth the angels sing; Come, adore on bended knee Christ, the Lord, the new-born King. Gloria in excelsis Deo. This morning, I got a text message from a friend announcing the birth of her son, Milo.  He arrived unexpectedly early during the wee

Read More »

God’s Unlimited Forgiveness

To what depths would you go for your spouse, your children, or your family members? Would you risk your life for them?  How much would you sacrifice for their happiness or their safety?  The answers for most people would be positive.  But what if you were asked the same questions

Read More »

When you’re tired of feeling weak…

I sat quietly in the waiting room with tears streaming down my face. My unstable emotions were even catching me off guard. I was so tired of feeling weak. After all, I’m the one who’s always supposed to have it all together. And oh, how I long to be that person: the low-maintenance one who

Read More »

Pride, Popularity, and the Pursuit of Ourselves

“Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was

Read More »

Our Prince of Peace

There is no doubt we live in a time of unrest all around the world. We can all feel it…even if we don’t talk about it. We see it on the nightly news, and we hear about it as we pick our kids up from school or as we head

Read More »

The Law Has Three Jobs

As a kid I always liked rules. Not all rules of course, but in general I liked to follow the rules. For me, “law” was not a scary idea. My husband, however, never liked rules as a kid and was breaking the law at a young age. In my mind

Read More »