In the past few months our church’s weekly attendance has begun to outgrow our meeting space (a space that is less than two years old!). It’s a great problem to have, but ...
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A Light in 2024
The Christmas season was underway and Luke and I were savoring a mid-week date night: the food was delicious, the company was good, and now that the meal was winding down and ...
Quotable || The Awesome and Amazing Fact
“Christmas celebrates the awesome and amazing fact that God is grander, wiser and more mysterious than we could have ever imagined.” ~ Dan Schaeffer ...
Joy to the World! (December Verse—Psalm 96:12-13)
This blog post is coming to you from my living room couch. It’s not my usual writing spot, but my laptop and I have migrated from the office for the month of ...
Quotable || Wild, Relentless, Passionate
“You could more easily catch a hurricane in a shrimp net that you can understand the wild, relentless, passionate, uncompromising, pursuing love of God made present in the manger.” ~ Brennan Manning ...
Quotable || Optimism vs Hope
“Optimism and hope are radically different attitudes. Optimism is the expectation that things—the weather, human relationship, the economy, the political situation, and so on—will get better. Hope is trust that God will ...
Faithful 11.23—Bold Prayers
The women’s Bible study I’ve been a part of for years is studying the book of Genesis this year. When this theme was announced at the start of the semester, there was ...
Quotable || God’s Megaphone
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone ...
Is It Fair? (November Verse—Psalm 96:9-11)
Like nearly everyone who was alive in 2001, I remember the moment the towers fell with pristine clarity. I was putting the finishing touches on my mascara that Tuesday morning when my ...
Quotable || Life in Christ
“A life outside of Christ is both hard and frightening; a life in Christ has hard edges and dark valleys, but it is purposeful even when painful.” ~ Rosaria Butterfield ...