I am independent. Stubborn. Smug. Love myself. Hate to fail. Take-charge. Crushed one potential boyfriend when I said “I don’t need you.” (He wasn’t satisfied with being wanted.) Don’t need help. I can handle it. Have the right answers. All this? The world says it’s a recipe for success. Then God ripped off the blindfold.…

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“Much of contemporary evangelism is woefully deficient when it comes to confronting people with the reality of their sin. Preachers offer people happiness, joy, fulfillment, and everything positive. Present-day Christians are taught that all they have to do is find a person’s psychological needs then offer Jesus as a panacea for whatever the problem is.…

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God has allowed me many opportunities to practice not worrying. Clearly it’s something I needed (still need?) to work on. Does the word “opportunity” sound strange to you? It did at first to me too, but difficulties and undesirable situations are exactly that. As I tell my children, “This is an opportunity for you to…

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It has been a long dark lonely road. And by long, I mean years. My children are reading through The Young Pilgrim’s Progress right now with their dad (because I can barely stay awake by their bedtime). So many of the trials and detours described in that book are familiar to me: the Valley of…

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Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you read my post on making memorizing Scripture a priority and said to yourself, “Yes! I need to do that and I am going to do that!” The next step is to decide what exactly to memorize. If this is your first go at it ever,…

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I recently guest-posted on the blog “Like a Warm Cup of Coffee” on the topic of preparing children to go into the world by going into the world together as a family. (Click here to read Part 1: Is Your Family a Clique? and Part 2: Is Your Family an Outpost for Christ?) A few…

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