On the whole, I am a lot angrier a person than I would like to be. Someone cuts me off in traffic? I get angry. Someone posts an insensitive political…
Is shame ever a good thing? That’s a question I’ve been wrestling with for the last year. About a year and a half ago I wrote a post for Her.meneutics…
Tomorrow Isaac will be two weeks old (!!!) and this past Saturday we “took off the training wheels,” so to speak, when my parents went home and we were left…
This week I unearthed an excerpt from a book that I had forgotten about, although I have posted it here before. I used it for a lesson I taught on…
As far as ministry is concerned, this week was a great one for me. On Tuesday I spoke at a women’s event at my church that went incredibly well, and…
This summer I’ve had the real pleasure of leading a book club at my church in which we are reading Shauna Niequist’s Bittersweet. Each session, I kick off the evening…
This week I learned two very important lessons: To be grateful for the gift of hearing, and the danger of using Q-tips to clean your ears. However, the link between…
Since Tuesday, Ike and I have been staying in New Bern, NC where, later today, Ike will preside over the wedding of a close college friend. The bride’s family generously…
Hi friends! Ike and I have been traveling all over creation, which is why I haven’t been on here the last week. This weekend we went to the mountains with…
Last night my Bible study did something a little different. One of the girls in my group led us in a session of “guided prayer” which, if you are unfamiliar,…
