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"And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut if off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than...

Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me.” That commandment, the first of ten, seems simple, right?!? Why would I esteem...

We made it through the holidays! The hullabloo, the hooplah, and the holy cow of it all has passed. Some of us are ready to get back to...

The amazingly talented Angela Schultz interviewed me for her podcast, Viamare. I was hesitant to share because I was was scared. I was...

My favorite Christmas Carol is O Holy Night! I love to sing it, marinate on the words, embrace the imagery and struggle to hit that high...

Many of us are looking forward to this season of joy and giving. We love to drive around looking at the twinkling Christmas lights,...

Over the weekend, I was diagnosed with calcific tendinitis. It's a condition in which calcium crystals form in the tendons of the rotator...

The word "toxic" seems to be a popular buzz word in our culture these days. It is, undoubtedly overused and therefore, misunderstood and...

I had what some would consider a tumultuous childhood. My parents never married. One struggled with alcoholism and anger issues the other...

My family crunched over crisp leaves on an uncommonly warm Fall day during our hike in the woods. Taking in all the sights, sounds and...

A few weeks back, a friend approached me about helping to put her thoughts down onto paper. She was trying to compose an encouraging...

"Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted." Psalm 25:16 Have you ever looked in the Obituaries section of the...

Many years ago, I had just wrenched myself from a relationship that I never should have engaged in to begin with, let alone continue well...

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is...

You read that right. I'm a hypocrite. I likely always will be. It's not intentional, but because I am a continuing work in progress;...

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4 My children, on a regular basis, ask me what...

"My Sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." John 10:27 NCV This morning, I dropped my daughter off at Preschool. All...

I wanted to go to church one morning, but I didn’t “feel” like going. I wanted to stay in bed, not shower, not wrangle breakfast for my...

The waves came hard and fast. While only knee deep for me, those caps easily knocked my smallest children into the sandy banks....

"Look at that rainbow!" I blurted to my son sitting in the passenger's seat next to me. "It looks like a rainbow orb. That is so cool!"...