A friend called recently to tell me she’s going through a difficult divorce. Everything she thought she had, she said, has crumbled around her. Her pastor husband confessed to twenty-plus years of infidelity, but only after being found out and confronted by the church. We talked at length about healing after divorce, about recovering one’s…
“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19 NIV) In Ephesians, Paul writes, “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins . . . But because…
In April of 2019, my husband returned home from a four-month deployment to the Middle East. While he was there, he worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week. While he was there, he didn’t have a single day off. He knew this ahead of time, and I suggested to him that we go on a…
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they…
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” (Ps. 19:1 NIV) I was born and raised in Michigan, where winters are cold and snowy. I remember feeling like Randy from A Christmas Story when I was a child, bundled up in so many thick layers that I could barely move….
From the time they were little more than infants, both of my daughters adopted security blankets which went with them everywhere, from bed to the grocery store to Chick-fil-A. My oldest girl’s attempts to say “blankie” came out more like “blank-on-nee,” which eventually evolved into “Connie,” thereby ensuring that in our home, all blankets would…