When Longing For More Is Good

When Longing For More Is Good

With the recent ice storm in the midwest, I was reminded of these amazing images I was able to capture a couple of years ago and the thoughts that they triggered.  Join me this week on a post from my past? “Those ice cakes may have traveled all the way from...
10 Ways to Cooperate with Jesus

10 Ways to Cooperate with Jesus

A friend approached me in tears recently wondering how to go forward after a major loss in ministry due to someone else’s heartbreaking moral failing. This loss tempted my friend to despair and even consider leaving her ministry. Because I’ve experienced...
Fear Fighting: Beating The Beast of Worry

Fear Fighting: Beating The Beast of Worry

I know a true warrior and her name is Kelly Balarie.  She wars against fear and she also wars for encouragement in faith, hope, and love. I don’t know about you, but I need people like that on my side! That is why I want to introduce her and her new book, Fear...
The Most Important Preparation for the Holidays

The Most Important Preparation for the Holidays

A Christmas word problem for you: There is a busy woman who has 1,000 anxious thoughts about the upcoming Holiday season. She entrusts herself to the Lord and casts all of her anxieties on the Lord as she prays and gives thanks. What does that equal? Mathematically we...