Perspective on What Matters Most (Matthew 22:36-40)
Do you know your husband’s face? Your mother’s hands? Your grandfather’s voice? This adorable video shows how children memorize their mother’s features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRoqk_z2Lgg What about your loved ones’ preferences? Do you know what they are... Read more
Ever participated in a three-legged race? Your leg is bound to a partner’s. Then, you’re supposed to run, together, to a destination. I remember the terror of participating in this sort of for-bystanders’-amusement-only activity. The... Read more
Sometimes we turn on ourselves. Sometimes our loved ones have to fight us for us. It is, for example, for their own good that we scold and discipline children for running into the road. In... Read more
I can’t seem to say the words without closing my eyes. “But I feel” …like there is no good option. Then, eyes opened too wide, I grope for words to justify the way I feel.... Read more
How does a Christian grow in their faith? We like to start by building ourselves up in the Lord when we work our praying and ministering muscles. Another strategy is to stretch ourselves by extending... Read more
I recently had the privilege of sharing a brief devotion with a bunch of teenage girls. Weeks in advance, when I asked the Lord what He might have me say, His answer was clear: “tell... Read more
{This post originally appeared on My Faith Radio} We know all too well the adrenaline rush of a beloved phone fizzling out or breaking. Updates to social media page layouts and software give us pause.... Read more
As the speaker in the video wraps up her lesson, she prays. All of us in the room grow quiet, listening in. The screen grows dark and before anyone launches the discussion questions, a friend... Read more
I’m one of those people who has regularly lived in fear of failure. Are you? I’ve made too many decisions based on what I know I can do, not what I believe I should do.... Read more
Thinking of Christ as our anchor, we often picture storms raging. Tossed about in the chaos, we think of clinging to Him. Our hands burn, grasping, struggling, to hold on. But the wonderful truth: as... Read more