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I Thought I’d Know More by Now
I thought I’d know more by now. Have you ever felt that way? I mean, sometimes I know things. True things. Helpful things. Truths I learned from God’s Word and applied. Other times, the mirror fogs, and no matter how many times I swipe, I can’t get clarity, can’t see beyond the back of my …[ read more ]
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When Death and the Devil Appear to Win the Day (What We Do to Hold On)
*For happy news and a baby picture, scroll to the end of this post. None of us likes to lose – neither to opponents nor to hardship nor to death. There’s no glory in failure, in the dissolution of dreams, in defeat. And while we put on brave faces for the world or for the …[ read more ]
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We Are Not of Those Who Shrink Back and Are Destroyed
In the light of a new day, facing more headlines, another body count, more cries for war and tears for peace, we will be tempted to lose heart. And we would, in fact, lose heart, if not for Jesus Christ. For in these times when we grieve, we lament, we keenly feel our mortality, our …[ read more ]