Suddenly a Storm

I adore storms. This week the girls and I got to watch a pretty decent one. We saw it starting to roll in, so we went out on the back patio and watched. The sky was greenish and tiny drops of rain were occasionally falling when the siren went off, so we went back...

Standing Firm

Evan and I are writing a companion Bible study guide to my next book, To Push on the Rock. I was test driving my way through the first week’s exercises, and this verse stood out: “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ” (2 Cor....

The God Who Sees

Last time, I wrote about how we have a choice–to view things with faith, love, and hope, or not to. They really are a game-changer. But this is the flip-side of that. Sometimes things are just hard–often, actually, since we are broken people living in a...

The Thin Line between Surviving & Thriving

A few months ago, in the study on 1 & 2 Thessalonians I’d been doing, I came across this idea that’s been percolating since then. Beth Moore argued that the only difference between surviving and thriving is faith, hope, and love (Children of the...
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