By twenty-nine years of age, I thought I would have had a better grasp on how to transition well. Finish one year of school, start another. Move out of one home, make another. Lose touch with one friend, meet another. Leave one job, find another. Leave one church, join another.
There’s something I love about watching a person take something that looks worthless, damaged, or common and turn it into something beautiful, whether it’s Joanna Gaines restoring houses in the show “Fixer Upper,” people who are able to turn someone else’s old junk into a cute vintage piece for their…
Being asked recently to write a blog post on God’s provision—the wonderful, gracious, and delicious kind outlined in Isaiah 55, my mind immediately went to not just his provision, but his promise. Thinking about his promise brought to mind a beautiful blog post written by my friend Ashleigh. Ashleigh McIntyre…
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” –Ephesians 5:11-14 I love how easy that sounds to defeat darkness. It…
As I was looking ahead to Thanksgiving and thinking about writing this post I decided I wanted to try to be more thankful throughout the day. I would start listing things throughout the day that I was thankful for, a beautiful sunrise, a comfortable bed etc. I found that after…
A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer and was told he probably has one to two years of life left. Pretty serious news to digest, to say the least. But you wouldn’t know it to talk with him, or pray with him. His whole emphasis in life since…
Endurance is an important part of any Christian’s life. To endure is to persist and hold our ground when something stressful or hard comes our way. It means facing hard situations even when they expose our weaknesses. Enduring isn’t dependent on whether hard things come our way—that’s inevitable. The…
Should you get baptized? This question is very significant primarily because our Lord Jesus told us if we love him we will do it. He actually says “if you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15) Jesus gave the command to all his followers to be baptized (Matt…
Stories. They make us laugh, they make us cry, they inspire us and they make us clench our fists in suspense. But can they make us live better lives? At the beginning of this year, I felt a nudge from God to read some true stories—biographies. Real people and real…
The new year has come, and this is the time for making goals for the coming year. Actually, this happens more often than at the beginning of the new year. Goals tend to be made at the beginning of the summer, at the beginning of the fall and also at…
