Some people can’t believe God could ever love them because of their past. They’ve been too bad for God to accept or use. They’ve obviously never looked at the lineage of Jesus. In Jesus’ human closet are ancestors who were liars, prostitutes, adulterers, murderers and people who sinned in just about every way imaginable. And…
We’d been married only a year and were ecstatic to find that Missy was pregnant. The realization ushered our marriage to a new level of intimacy and sense of family. We no longer passed by the baby section in Target, but dove in, aisle by aisle, soaking up our new environment with elation. Our evenings…
This summer, my husband and I will celebrate our first anniversary, but this isn’t going to be one of those stories telling you the 10 things I learned in my first year. I don’t have five things I’d do differently or three lessons to share with you. Because the most important part of our first…
Here’s the thing – sometimes, I have this conviction that God doesn’t care as much as we think He does. (Don’t freak! Hear me out, okay?) Sometimes, I have this sneaking suspicion that, maybe, as Christians, we put an unhealthy amount of emphasis on figuring out “God’s will” for our lives. Sometimes, this emphasis to…
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” (James 2:26) According to recent scholarship summarized in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2010), authenticity in relationships was found to promote relationship building behaviors and relationship satisfaction and their antitheses—defensiveness, dishonesty, and inauthenticity were found to “undermine relationship partners’…
