What you’re going through is temporary, but who you’re becoming is permanent and is qualifying you for your next God-orchestrated opportunity. Over the last two months we have all found ourselves in a new version of life. Whether you have been in lockdown, considered an essential worker, or you already worked from home, no doubt […]
“I just want things to go back to the way they were?” Have you said this out loud recently, or at least thought it to yourself? I will admit that in the first weeks of this quarantine I had this thought more than once. But then I looked a little deeper, and I asked myself, […]
The events of the past week or so have suddenly enveloped not just our cities, states and nation, but nations. It is affecting every institution we have in America—schools, sports, businesses, churches, ministries and events. Many have never felt so vulnerable. But there are ways to respond to this, and the first is to minimize […]
Have you ever heard someone use the saying, “Trust me—that’s not a thread you want to pull”? It’s a common phrase our grandparents used to convey to someone that they should leave whatever the problem or issue was alone. Because just like pulling a loose thread on a sweater, if you pull on it, the […]
“I took a walk and it led me to nowhere, but it brought me into a new way of thinking and so the walk was worth it.” —Author Unknown Sometimes what God is doing in you has nothing to do with what you are actually doing; it is about what He is forming in you through […]
For most of my life I thought that I was the one that had to get things done. Am I the only one that got lost in that assumption? I was eclipsed by the idea that there was a job to do, and I cared deeply about getting it done. I could see nothing else […]
cel·e·brate: to acknowledge and praise frequently; to honor; to hold (through words and actions) in high regard. It was my first year as a full-time youth pastor at a great church in Southern Ohio. I was a little unsure about how I was going to lead, and also how a new, young, female, youth pastor […]
While I attended Bible school at age 18 I worked part-time at a store that I tenderly call “The Maxx”. T.J. Maxx, the retail store, didn’t mean much to me at the time. I was focused on Bible school, but they were hiring part-time with evening hours and that was just what I needed. My […]
One shovel of dirt can be brushed off, but too many and you are in trouble. Recently I discovered this is something going on that is killing the vibrant faith, hope, and vision of a lot of great people, and maybe it has even been happening to you. Faith is a spiritual substance that we […]
Words are something that I grew to love in my young adult years. Something about the thrill of invoking the perfect word that dead on describes something with total accuracy thrilled me. (i.e. invoking—oh how I love that word too!) I think that is what drew me with real interest into every English literature class I […]