How to Love the Prickly Ones

How to Love the Prickly Ones

What if the most powerful evangelism is to love those who don't love you or who instead do wrong to you? God's lessons to a reluctant student.

The Real Homeless Crisis

The Real Homeless Crisis

The spiritually homeless are at greatest danger when life's storms arise. Helping the spiritually homeless requires those who would serve to risk something.

From the Lives of Babes

From the Lives of Babes

In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. 1 Peter 3:15 Today is my son, Trevor’s, 17th birthday. Coming just a week after my oldest son left for college I find myself particularly [...]

An Open Letter to Daughters-in-Law: Take a Page from Ruth and Naomi

An Open Letter to Daughters-in-Law: Take a Page from Ruth and Naomi

(Originally written as a gift to my mother-in-law for Mother's Day 2001) Today I am one of you, a daughter-in-law, but tomorrow I will be one of them...a mother-in-law. As the mother of two sons, I encourage you this Mother's Day to make a decision to love your mother-in-law. Through 10 years of marriage it was [...]

Secrets of a Domestic Goddess

Secrets of a Domestic Goddess

There is overlooked satisfaction to be found in fulfilling the domestic roles of wife and mother, even when paired with career and vocations outside the home.

Grandma’s Hands

Grandma’s Hands

Grandma’s hands offered the perfect metaphor for who she was: diminutive and always delicate in appearance, she rarely topped 100 pounds, inside was a tough, scrappy constitution.