Weekly Gospel Meditation
Bible Study: Six Steps to Learning the Language
Learning a new language brings freedom to travel. Last year, our twenty-four-year old son traveled to Europe, first to Barcelona, then to France, where he participated in a music festival. Unlike me, he can navigate these foreign lands freely, because he is fluent in...
Numbering Our Days: Gospel Comfort for Caregivers
Dear Friends, This month's Numbering Our Days post is for all of you caregivers and all of the caregivers you love. Don't forget to sign up if you want to receive the monthly column, Numbering Our Days: A Gospel Perspective on Aging, Caregiving, and End of Life in...
Hope for Recovery: God Is With Me
Win books! This month, as we celebrate the one-year-birthday of From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis, I’m giving away four books each week. See above for this week’s books. Enter for a chance to win. To have more chances...
When You Can’t Share Your Prayer Requests
Win books! This month, as we celebrate the one-year-birthday of From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis, I’m giving away four books each week. See above for this week’s books. Enter for a chance to win. To have more chances...
How to Wait Well in Crisis
Win books! This month, as we celebrate the one-year-birthday of From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis, I’m giving away four books each week. See above for this week’s books. Enter for a chance to win. To have more chances...
How to Take Heart in Hard Times
Win books! This month, as we celebrate the one-year-birthday of From Recovery to Restoration, I’m giving away four books each week. See above for this week’s books. Enter for a chance to win. To have more chances to win, share about the book more often or share the...
Waiting with Hope
Dear Friends, In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, I thought this excerpt from the book From Recovery to Restoration:60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis would encourage hearts today. Please share it with someone you know who needs it. Also, be sure to...
6 Things to Pass On as You Number Your Days
“I’ll never forget the time I took Kirby to a football game and fed him a bunch of skittles and popcorn and then let him ride on my shoulder.” So begins one of my husband’s favorite stories to retell (often at the inopportune time of dinner, given what follows—I’ll...
A Back-to-School Lesson about Performance-Based Acceptance
In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— Ephesians 1:4-5 Just shy of 59-years-old, I was headed back to school. I was excited to begin my Doctor of Ministry program, but I was also daunted by the...
How Great Is the Good News?
“The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.” Romans 8:16 “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1 “So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.” Romans...