Wisdom and strength require bootstrap-pulling and the placing of noses to grindstones.
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07/03/25
“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
07/02/25
How do the words “The righteous shall live by his faith” go from a context of hope in hopelessness to the cornerstone declaration of the chief doctrine of the Christian faith?
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10/09/18
They say girls in our society should have nothing to worry about. They should have the opportunity for education and choices far beyond generations before.
10/04/18
Love is the sum of the law. Love God with all your heart, spirit, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That means that if love can't be done when it needs to be done then get rid of the law, because it's not lawful.
10/04/18
Perhaps if we indulged our Christian freedom around them, they would come to see that “the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
09/13/18
Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
08/30/18
I saw a beautiful picture of grace yesterday. A real bestowing of favor on someone less deserving.
08/25/18
For on the other side of the death of forgiveness is the resurrection of joy. An easter in which we emerge from the tomb in the arms of the man whose scars glow with mercy.
08/06/18
Marriage is the ideal school in which to learn that we are not the center of the universe. We’re not created to live for ourselves. We find our true humanity only when we live for other people.
08/06/18
Never has the law fallen so hard on me as in motherhood. Never before was I more aware that my best wasn’t good enough.
08/01/18
When those who are serving joyfully and willingly are instead encouraged to complain that they are carrying the load for the rest of the body, all hope is lost.
07/31/18
Rather than telling our children, “You can be anything you want to be,” let’s tell them, “Be the best possible servant you can be.”
07/31/18
Jesus dies for the sin of the world. That means he dies for the person who disappoints us. He shed His blood for the person who doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved.
07/23/18
No matter which side, it’s easy for all of us to build Bible verses into grenades aimed at obliterating the political other.
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