Category: Christianity
Not Your Old Wives Tale
If there is one thing that all pregnant women do, it’s look up the old wives tales to figure out either the gender of their baby or why they’re experiencing weird symptoms.…
Continue readingActing Like Sisters
(In case you missed the announcement, and you probably did in the deafening silence of my blog nowadays, I am now a guest writer on the blog Perspectives of a Preacher’s Wife. This…
Continue readingHow Will They Learn?
Our children are watching. Our weak brothers and sisters are watching. The lost world is watching. How will they learn about the love of Jesus and His marvelous grace unless it is…
Continue readingMy Romans 16 List
On Sunday, one of our college students preached and made the point that we all, likely, have our own Romans 16 list. You know, a list of people who have helped us…
Continue readingAlienated: A Christian in a “Christian” Nation
Maybe it’s because I haven’t been writing regularly for over a year. Maybe it’s because every week affords a new controversy to ponder. Maybe it’s because I am so incredibly tired of…
Continue readingDiscipline That Hurts
My daughter is almost a year old, and she’s reached the point of testing limits. She knows what ‘no’ means, but she’ll still look at me and then reach out to grab…
Continue readingTwo Minds, But One
Growing a human is the weirdest thing I’ve ever done. It’s also the most God-infused thing I’ve ever done. I know that, really, I don’t have much control over what’s going on…
Continue readingTo The Ones Who Taught Me Friendship
Since this is the week leading up to Valentine’s Day, I’m doing a series of posts about people I love. If you missed Tuesday’s letter to our baby, click here! To my youth…
Continue readingAn Aversion to Sin
I never really understood aversions until this whole pregnancy thing happened. But when I found out we were expecting a little one, it didn’t take very long for the aversions to set…
Continue readingWe Are Weapons
Romans 6 is a fascinating chapter of the Bible. It includes so many fundamental things that Christians need to know, but it also goes much, much deeper than that. I think a…
Continue reading