On Tuesday afternoon, while working upstairs in my home office, I overheard my mom making several phone calls to promise prayer for, offer comfort to, and encourage several women who had recently lost their husbands. She understands. She gets it.…
Grandma’s Guide to Personal Bible Study
One of the questions I am asked most often is about how to have devotions. People are often told that they should have daily devotions, but they are not taught how to have them. The way I have chosen to…
How Could I Not See That?
I’ve often heard that doctors and nurses make the worst patients and that teachers make the worst students. And now I can add another one to the list: editors (of which I am one) are often the last to see…
Promises in the Stars
What fear do you have for the week ahead? What is consuming your thoughts as you look at the seven days before you? Do me a favor: look at the stars tonight (or if the clouds are out, remember a…
Lavishing Grace!
Don’t you just love this thought: “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us” (Ephesians 1:7–8, NIV). As if the thought that we—and…