Last week I wrote of the importance of Scripture reading. I believe prayer is an equally essential and necessary component for cultivating a healthy life and progressing towards spiritual maturity. Prayer is complicatedly simple. Frustratingly refreshing. It is one of the hardest easiest things for me to do. Too often
The end of the year is a time when we take measures to prepare for the new one that is coming. One preparation many of us make is choosing a Bible reading guide. It seems there are as many Bible reading plans as there are rocks in Haiti. I stumbled
One week in Haiti. One week of intense heat, intense work, and intense realities. But most of all, one week of intense love. I don’t hesitate to say that this one week impacted my life, challenged me, and most definitely changed me. There are many things God opened my eyes
The Christmas story doesn’t start in a manger or with a star in the sky. It doesn’t start with an angel appearing to Mary or even with the prophet Isaiah foretelling the coming Messiah. Christmas begins much earlier in Scripture, with Genesis 3:15 being the first promise of a coming
As we do each Thanksgiving, we filled the hour of time after we consume the turkey (and before the tryptophan sets in) cracking open the hymnal and singing hymns together as my sister in law played piano. Such a sweet time to sing praise and give honor to the giver of
