Gaining a heart of wisdom
Every parent has heard it -- the greatest of all appeals to justice: "You promised!" The promises of a responsible parent are not lightly made; therefore, the power of the appeal. As children of God, we can approach Him with this same confidence, for His Word is full of trustworthy promises founded upon His character… Continue reading You promised!
We live the questions, holding one another's feet to the fire. We raise our kids and pray for each other on those "I'm a Rotten Mom" Days. They know us at our worst, and they love us anyway! They are our Soul Friends: What Every Woman Needs to Grow in Her Faith. Dr. Leslie Parrot writes… Continue reading Soul Friends: A Book Review
As one who is eminently shake-able, I look daily and with great need to the unshakeable Word of God. There's no better place to turn when your heart has been shaken -- Truth (with a capital "t") is the solid foundation for a life of stability. The #livefree Thursday community is pondering the word… Continue reading Inerrancy Defined and Defended
When I first heard Luci Shaw described as "a poet sorting socks," I was just coming into my own career as a sock-sorter. Her poetry, harvested from the everyday of enjoying nature, relating to family and friends, and living the questions about her faith was soul-food in the midst of all the sorting out that… Continue reading Luci Shaw — A Poet for Life
We are a gulping people -- A swallowing whole, planning the next mouthful before the bolus lands kind of people We're that way with our food, too. Savor by Shauna Niequist is a daily flavor of the Word -- A slow down and think about it experience of considering one verse, one concept at a… Continue reading Pay Attention
John Piper shares a story of his experience at a sky-scraper construction site in Minneapolis. The foundation was in place and he gazed, astonished, into the depths of the hole -- four, five, six stories down into the soil of middle America, ensuring a sturdy foundation. His application from this experience was that a deep foundation is needed to support a lofty… Continue reading Receive. Respond. Repeat.
Linking up today with friends from #livefreeThursday where we are all pondering the topic: "no strings attached." Well, fine, say I, the Bible-teaching evangelical. My confessional theology is all about the sovereignty of God. I love and serve Him, and He gets to call the shots. But when He really DOES call the shots, and… Continue reading Unexpected Life
One of the rites of passage in our family of four boys has been the one-on-one camp out with Dad. Around the age of ten or eleven, before they were interested in girls, before their bodies started to take on a mind of their own, my good husband took them away for a weekend of canoeing and hotdogs;… Continue reading Getting Explicit
The Great Compromise of 1990 is not in the history books -- but it should be. It all started when I sewed a beautiful quilted Christmas tree skirt the year before I got married. Naturally, I expected to enjoy it under my tree for the rest of my days. However, at some point after our… Continue reading Yes, We Do
With Buried Secrets, Irene Hannon begins another series filled with heart-stopping suspense and heart-warming romantic drama. Lisa Grant, police chief in small-town Carson, has barely transitioned from her high-stress job as a Chicago police detective when a construction crew in the village uncovers a skeleton in a shallow grave. The county sends Detective Mac McGregor to assist with… Continue reading More Truth than Fiction
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