Faith is essential to a relationship with God. That’s true for us and for our children. Without faith it’s impossible to please God or to experience salvation and receive forgiveness. And without faith we are left to face life with our own frail and insufficient selves. How can any. . . bear up through the […]

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. Art Buchwald I’m fine with dinner being the evening ~ I just don’t want making it to take ALL EVENING! 😉I want easy evenings. And that means easy meals. I’m so done with complicated. But, that doesn’t mean I’m […]

Christians need Divine Intelligence not Artificial Intelligence! It’s there for the asking. What are we waiting for?

Hello and welcome to this series on the Proverbs 31 Woman.    I wrote that introduction to this series 10 years ago. I’m bringing it back now and featuring this iconic Biblical woman on the podcast in the coming weeks because her example is still inspiring and instructive for us today. Years ago Emily P. […]

Spiritual growth is first of all growth in grace. Peter closes his second epistle with the admonition to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The two go hand in hand, grace and an ever increasing knowledge of Jesus. Spiritual growth is a sign of spiritual life, of […]

What Google wants Google usually gets. Enter the Archive Page. Have you ever visited an Archive Page? I’m betting the answer is no. I hadn’t until an SEO site told me I needed to up the word count on my Archive Page. I didn’t even know I had an Archive Page. Google knows though and […]

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12-14 NIV […]

Jesus used to walk around town It was about 2000 years ago and half a world away from my town, but Jesus really did rub shoulders with regular people.  He hung out with them, had meals with them, and did a little traveling with some friends. Last week I was involved in a conversation about […]

  We all have the same 24 hours in every single day. That’s what I read in a lot of books and articles on productivity.And I’ve let it drive me not motivate me. At the heart of that statement is our fear of failure and our constant urge to measure ourselves against others. As though what […]