Today I’m joining Elizabeth Esther’s monthly link-up “The Saturday Evening Blog Post.” It’s a chance to highlight our favorite post from the previous month. Since we were in Bolivia on the first Saturday of August, she skipped it last month. So today, everyone is highlighting a post from July and from August. My favorite post…

Read More

It was the kind of sermon I’ve heard all my life — intellectual, loaded with facts, focused almost exclusively on getting the hearer to believe a certain statement or point of view to be true. We’d prided ourselves on our charts of memorized verses and stacks of notebooks crammed with sermons, and we called that…

Read More

[My Husband’s Perspective on Living Life with a Wife on the Web] Joy and I had just put the kiddos to bed. We plopped down on the couch, exhausted, with a bowl of fresh long-stemmed cherries between us. It was a tranquil, typical—and yes, perhaps somewhat sad scene: our dueling MacBook Pros whirring away on…

Read More

My husband and I will celebrate our thirteenth anniversary in a few weeks. We’ve crammed a lot into those 13 years – the births of four children, countless vehicle purchases and sales, two children’s medical crises, six open-heart surgeries (all on kids), emergency hospital admissions, the death of a child, depression, changing churches, the death…

Read More

As I posted yesterday, I’m cohosting a link-up here, at World Vision’s blog, to benefit Famine No More, a fund to bring food and water to the victims of east Africa’s famine. It occurred to me that perhaps some of you are wondering what this link-up thing is, anyway. I’m happy to help. What’s a…

Read More

“Can I have a snack?” “I’m so hungry mom. Is it dinnertime yet?” “I’m starving – what can I eat? No, I don’t want that. Do you have ____?” So much of my day revolves around my children ruled by their bellies. They eat three meals and a snack. The youngest, with his medical condition…

Read More