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The Power of Loving Jesus
I’m about to release a book called Seen and Invited: Meeting Jesus on the Dusty Roads. The book walks through Jesus’s healings and interactions with people he met along the way–the blind he healed, the lepers he touched, the dead he raised. The purpose of the book is simply to help readers see Jesus’s deep Shepherd love for us and to know that love is still ours today. The book is somewhat light on practical application. So, the question is does loving Jesus and understanding Jesus’s love for me help me travel the rough paths of my life? Unfortunately, I got to test this in the past few weeks. During…
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Wondering Where God is? Try Turning Around
In Exodus God sets the stage for the journey with his people, including the guidance of the cloudy pillars. He still guides us as carefully today.
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The Plane isn’t Going Down–the Problem of Turbulence
When faced with unemployment, I felt like our plane was going down. Instead, God pointed out to me that it's turbulence, and it's inevitable in every life.
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Turning Down an Invitation
After leading a group through a book on accepting Jesus's invitation for healing and wholeness, I promptly turned down an invitation for healing and wholeness. (Sigh)
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On Being Whole
I posited in a soon-to-be-released book that Jesus longs to make us whole. The Bible doesn't explicitly talk about us being made whole, so here's my take on the idea...
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What if the Great Commission isn’t so Great?
What if the Great Commission is equal in weight to resting in Jesus and loving my neighbor? Maybe our focus has been wrong for long time...
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From the Pit to the Rock
I’m a fiction writer by trade, and that means people can find me. They can also let me know when I have disappointed them, angered them, and let them down by writing something they don’t like. Honestly, sometimes I wish I lived way back in the day when female writers were given male pen names and hidden in the shadows. As much as I love to write, I’m much too thin-skinned for the job, and this week someone’s harsh words reminded me just how true that is. Yes, I got one of those emails. Darkness pounced. Very often those who find something distasteful in my writing go right for the…
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Stillness, God’s 2024 Word for me
This year I chose Stillness as my word for the year, with Wisdom and Wonder as supplementary words. Here I discuss how I chose, what verses go with them, and how I hope to use these words in my daily life through 2024.
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Lament and the Longest Night
Right before Christmas, we in the northern hemisphere experience the longest night, and it's a good time to bring our laments to God, admitting our doubts and hurts and fears before we celebrate Jesus's arrival.
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The Sanctuary of Psalm 114
When Psalm 114 speaks of Israel as a sanctuary, maybe it's speaking of me and the church as sanctuaries, as well. What does that look like?
