Default Response: Panic or Pray?
Much as I hate to admit it, my default response to certain crisis situations is panic rather than prayer. The enemy, first and foremost,...
Troubled Waters
Throughout our sons’ adolescent years, we intermittently faced difficult challenges as they sought to establish their autonomy. Our...
Comrade in Arms
God speaks to us in a multitude of ways, if we just listen. He speaks through His Word, by His Spirit to our spirit, through others,...
Reckless Abandon
“ . . . they left everything and followed Jesus.” ~ Luke 5:11b What exactly does it mean to give up everything and follow Jesus? Does it...
The Measure of a Man
A man's level of success depends upon the standard by which he is measured. I am very blessed to be married to an exceedingly successful...
Tending Your Garden
By the time winter has just about worn me out with long, dark days and vacant scenery, spring bursts forth. I anxiously head outdoors to...
Baby Steps
Remember when your baby was learning to walk? He stood up, wobbled, and fell on his behind only to stand up, wobble, and fall again. ...
The Hot Dog Incident
Many years ago when we were young parents with young children, Bobby and I gave our lives to Christ. Still in the infancy of our faith,...
Praying Together
Although I was raised going to church on Sunday and reciting memorized prayers, I never truly understood the nature of prayer as intimate...
The Power of Silence
By the time I came to Christ, I’d been a wife for seven years. Naturally, the first thing I began petitioning God for was salvation for...