Ok, I am upset today. I admit it. You should know this as you read and evaluate it as such….but consider what I am saying as well. If I hear one more young parent tell me that they know what is best for their child, I may explode. Do they really believe that? I can [...]
At the end of the service on Sunday, someone came up and asked me an excellent question: “How can we tell who really needs the help and what is the best way to help them?” It is a good question and few people ask it today in order to make the most benefit of their [...]
In the Sunday service, we’ve spent the last several weeks talking about the obstacles we experience in our journey with God. My main obstacle is anger.
I get the angriest with people who appear to me to be what I am most afraid of becoming. If your behavior strikes me as selfish, I’m going to be [...]
The ultimate hypocrisy that I see in the church today is the rejection of grace. Not in extending grace to others, but in extending grace to ourselves. We often stand in the way of our own realization of redemption because we cannot forgive ourselves.
The reason it is easier to forgive someone else and not yourself [...]
Father’s day is lame, and yet I always enjoy it. It is lame, I believe, because it is another ploy for corporate America to generate some fake emotions and then cash in on them. I enjoy it because I really like my kids and as their father I am very proud of them. My upbringing, [...]
Why is it that we tend to think our sin is not as bad as others? No matter what our sin is, we always have people that make us angry….like the person that does _____. How did you fill in the blank? Each of us has people in our lives that do [...]
“Today spiritual disciplines really need to be focused on our relationship with God in a world where God gets crowded by everyday distractions.” Last week, Matt began the blog with this statement and then followed it with five great ideas to improve our relationship with God. So this week, I would like to [...]
I love elephants. I have ever since I was a little girl. While other (normal) girls pined after horses and dolphins, I’d look longingly at pictures of elephants and wish I could go on adventures as a secret agent riding my trusty elephant steed “Walter.” As an adult, I had forgotten my passion for pachyderms. [...]
I am like many of you. I often wake up in the morning with a list of to-dos. Very often my list might contain things that I hate to do or that I am dreading. Some mornings I don’t even really want to get out of bed.
In the face of these feelings, I have been [...]
As we have been wrestling through the stages of spiritual growth lately, I have had many comments and emails about where you seem to fit and which things really hit home. I have also had many questions about how you decide if you are growing and not just stuck in one of these stages. [...]
