Trusting the Father When I Don’t Understand The tune of Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus’ plays softly in the background as I tackle the day’s tasks before me. Deadlines loom, messages piling in my inbox scream for my attention, and a list of personal needs must be addressed. Read more…
How to Begin a New Chapter in Life When You Feel Uncertain An unseen songbird calls from the spruce tree, sharing its hopeful song in two short notes. I close my eyes and pray that the biting wind might sweep my cares away. In ten short minutes, I’ll step into Read more…
8 Fabulous Ways to Pray for God’s Guidance (& Direction) Often, people will reach out to our ministry and ask us to pray for them. When we ask, how can we pray, they often respond with, “Would you pray for me to know what God wants for my life?” Read more…
How to Make Ephesians 3:16-21 Your Personal Prayer Recently, I’ve been looking at some of the prayers in the Bible. I found so many prayers that people prayed themselves. Then, some prayers were prayed for a whole group of people publicly. Also, I found many prayers written in letters for Read more…
How to Make the Prayer of David (in Psalm 20) Personal Recently, I had to get some new reading glasses. I went to the glasses shop and met with my favorite optician. Her name is Deborah, and she’s been helping me choose glasses for about 10 years. Our practice is Read more…
Decorate Your Heart with Joy This Holiday Season The Thanksgiving decorations in the shed were staring me down. Bins full of pumpkins, pilgrims, and fall foliage. The argument inside my mind ensued. I don’t have to decorate for Thanksgiving this year. Maybe I’ll skip Thanksgiving and decorate for Christmas. Read more…
How to Give the Gift of Prayer for Christmas With all of the hustle and bustle of the season, it can be challenging to maintain a practical focus on the birth of Christ. Amid the parties, shopping, wrapping, baking, and fun activities, Christ can fade into the background if we Read more…
An Apology Letter for Healing Your Church Hurt It seems like it was just yesterday. My younger brother was in trouble. It seemed he was regularly getting a spanking or having to atone for something he had done that day. I think I was about ten years old, and he Read more…
How to Load up on the Good and Get Rid of the Bad Author Dave Ramsey tells the most intriguing story about his wife’s regular practices after she runs. Her name is Sharon. As an avid runner, Sharon has a schedule that she keeps and some habits that she follows. Read more…
Recovering from Sexual Abuse: The Role of Prayer Recovering from sexual abuse is a deeply personal and challenging journey, often filled with a mix of emotions and complex stages of healing. For survivors, the process is particularly daunting when abuse occurs in spaces intended to provide safety, like medical settings. Read more…
4 Ways the Holy Spirit REVEALS Truth to You and Me My mother gave them to us almost every Sunday in church. They were the coolest little pencil puzzle books. If you would turn your pencil to the side and brush it back and forth across the page, an image Read more…
Turning 2 Chronicles 7:14 Into Your Personal Prayer I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we are living in some unusual and rather chaotic times right now. Consistently, we hear about hurricanes and floods and storms and crime. Our communities, our churches, our families, our businesses, our cities, our states, Read more…