Have you ever asked: “How long, Lord, must I call for help and you do not listen or cry out to you about violence and you do not save?” (Habakkuk 1:2) I have! We look around and have to wonder, “God, why don’t you do something?!?” The prophet Habakkuk had certainly had enough when he […]

This very day, an uber-popular Christian author and speaker tweeted that regular people don’t need to really study scripture. What they need is more self-help. Because most people don’t make their living writing Christian books and studies she said, they, “don’t have the luxury of devoting outsized energy toward hermeneutics when their marriages are falling […]

A few years ago, I had an awkward and heavy load delivered to our house from the farm store. The young man who drove the truck had a hard time getting up our super steep driveway, then difficulty backing his trailer into the spot where the load had to be set. He was obviously annoyed […]

Our small group at church had a guest speaker who teaches at a local public university. He told us something interesting. He said, “The students whom I work with have a real heart for social justice. They will march and protest about any number of social problems, but they won’t be nice to their roommate.” […]

The book of Hosea includes one of the saddest lines of scripture. Through the prophet Hosea, God lamented about His people: “But they did not realize that it was I who healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little […]

Do you remember the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986? It was the largest industrial accident in history with nuclear fallout felt all over the world. Interestingly enough, that tragedy was completely avoidable. You see, it was caused by two bored electrical engineers “playing around” in the control room late at night. For fun, they were […]

Fair warning: You might want to sit down for this. There are a handful of verses in the book of Daniel that will blow your mind and then change your world. In Daniel 10:4-14, there is a situation where Daniel has been fasting and praying for weeks about a specific thing and getting no answer […]

A few weeks ago, our pastor said something that I can’t get out of my mind. “What a tragedy it would be,” he said, “if, at the end of my life, I had all of my children and grandchildren gathered around me and had no great acts of God to tell them about.” Can you […]

All of us are going to come to it one day- the moment when you realize that there’s been a line drawn in the sand. If you cross over it, there will be no going back. You had better be right. I had a moment like this a few years back when I was pregnant […]

Perhaps like you, I am raising children on this polarizing, dangerous and sometimes terrifying planet. I have had people tell me that they would never bring children into this world. I’ve had other people advise me not to bring any more children into this world. (Ironically, I was not soliciting their advice.) Raising godly children […]