Sep 6, 2017 | Growth for Life |
My guttural groans might get so loud you’ll hear them in your living room. Can you hear me now? It happens when I hop online. Oy. Social Media you slay me. So many voices. Dissension rules the roost of our hearts and minds. Rival banter remains impartial...
Aug 24, 2017 | Growth for Life |
I pray. I plead. I beg on my knees. I want something big and I’m sure God wants it too. Surely, if it’s a good thing and it lines up with what God desires, then I should get it. Right? When any of us pray fervently for months and years, it’s easy to...
Aug 17, 2017 | Growth for Life |
Is that really you, God? Should I move? Should I stay? One Option: Nah, that doesn’t make sense. I’ll just stick with what I know. Another Option: Hmmm…maybe it is you. I don’t understand it though. It sounds awfully...
Aug 8, 2017 | Growth for Life |
We spent last week in Washington state pursuing a kind of change many of us don’t talk about much. At least, not in the faith circles I’m familiar with. Generally, when it comes to dealing with loss, trauma, and hard circumstances, we talk a lot about...
Jul 25, 2017 | Growth for Life |
The other day I set out to do something I thought was pretty cool. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But, sometimes what I set out to do doesn’t turn out quite the way I think it will. I was reminded of a story I’d read many times before. Since I thought it might be...
Jul 17, 2017 | Growth for Life |
Approval. An overused word with a haunting impact for many. For people-pleasers like me, it’s a way of life. The approval way of living becomes a crushing weight of dying. Thankfully, with Christ, death precedes life. There is hope. Sometimes, we know deep...