My church just finished a series of messages focused on marriage. I did not attend. Throughout my decades of work in churches, I have heard multiple sermons about marriage. Tips for how to love your spouse. Using the five love languages. Submission, submission, submission. Gag! While there was a time in my life when those …
Patience is NOT one of my virtues. Yet it seems as I grow older, God requires more instruction involving patience. Once again, I sit in his school of waiting. When we wait, our first question is “When?” When will the answers come? How much longer do I need to wait? Is there a deeper purpose …
She is often overlooked as a mere secondary character in Genesis. Yet Hagar’s story contains one of the most insightful verses of all time. Hagar may have been fairly young as the maid servant of Sarai, Abram’s wife. Because Sarai was not able to conceive, she convinced Abram to take Hagar as his concubine. Hagar …
As Covid-19 marches on, how can we stay in hope? Somehow the platitude of “We’re all in this together” sounds hollow. I need something more. This week, I focused on an Old Testament story where the community faced a plague of serpents. The children of Israel grumbled, because they were impatient and tired of the …
To increase awareness of Domestic Violence Month, this is a re-post about the intensity of writing a novel on the topic of domestic abuse. One out of four women live in destructive relationships. Some of them sit next to you at church or at work. Some of them are in your family. It is important …
Perhaps the answer to “When, God, when” is wrapped around the positives of each day. How can we find our destinies within the search?