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My black coffee experiment is a lot like what I’m embracing in my spiritual and emotional life right now: a reset. It can be really important in times of overwhelm and difficulty to eliminate all the “noise” in your life. I think Jesus would agree. Through Scripture, God reminds us repeatedly that we are to push aside the complicated and embrace the pure, the true, the authentic.
Read MoreIn a deeper sense, January reminds me of the reset we get in Christ, which the apostle Paul tells us about in 2 Corinthians 5:17. We can let go of the past, knowing we get a do-over, a new identity, a blank page in our January calendar. We get a fresh start in Jesus.
Read MoreAre you a praying friend? Should you be? A friend who prays for you knows the bond you share isn’t just in this world but also the “real” world: the eternal kingdom ruled by God the Father, the kingdom that has no end and transcends death, lasting for eternity. A praying friend knows the One who’s really in control of all things we worry about is God, and there’s no better way to deal with those worries than to bring them to Him, to lay them all down at His feet and ask Him for help.
Read MoreThis New Year. I’m staying wide open to whatever God has planned.
Read MoreThoughts on the perspective we gain from the hardest of times.
Read MoreSometimes, the way we prefer to be loved isn’t exactly the right fit for our kids, our friends, even our spouses. On learning to love in another “language.”
Read MoreHave I truly learned to wait, to be content to let God be God and surrender our will? Have any of us?
Read MoreJust in time for those Thanksgiving “discussions,” here’s a compilation of 18 blogs I’ve written in the last few years on representing Jesus by loving each other well.
Read MoreThey call her “Jekyll and Hyde” and “psycho kitty.” Still, I love her. And God loves us in spite of our own mean-kitty ways, too. Love lessons I’ve learned from my mean kitty.
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