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They’re not listening. This is the complaint I hear from my contemporaries about the next generations. Women of a certain age worry about the generations coming up behind us. We know we have a biblically-ordained responsibility to reach and teach younger women, but we flounder in this task. Largely because we view it as a …[ read more ]

It’s so easy to go wrong – well, for me it is anyway. I’ve been thinking about ambition. Early in life, I understood from God’s Word that I wasn’t to seek after the things of the world. What Jesus said in Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all …[ read more ]

Behind every book written in the name of Jesus, there’s a story. In June of 2017, after weeks of imagining I might never write another book, and with great tears of relief, I signed a contract with Kregel Publishing to write The Art of Hard Conversations . It would be an immense undertaking. It was an impossible topic, but one …[ read more ]

Father God, When headlines and my own fretful heart tempt me to anxiety or fear, remind me that the government rests on Jesus’ shoulders and not on the visible powers of this world. When I’m tempted to cave to the world’s spin and misdirection, bring me back to Jesus who operated every day according to Your agenda and no other. Keep me from adopting the ways of …[ read more ]

The world is having a conversation and most Christians are hiding from it. That’s not what Jesus would do. This isn’t a post with pat answers because every congregation is interacting with a different community, so how we live this out is going to look different, but I can tell you this – Jesus expects …[ read more ]