When Favor Feels Unfair
Everyone wants to be accepted. It’s human nature. Unfortunately, it’s also human nature to compare and compete.
Category: Devotionals
How Good Is Good Enough?
In the last year of her life, I walked with my mother-in-law through the complicated and difficult journey of understanding Jesus inside a terminal cancer diagnosis.
In Haste
It’s pretty incredible to me how three children can come from the same parents and be so wildly different. In our house, one of the ways this is most apparent is the way my children handle money.
Talk About It
In the parable of the Prodigal Son, what caused the younger son to ask for his share of the estate? Why do you suppose the father agreed?
Found: True Self
We humans love measurements and comparison. Height, weight, dollars, report cards, test scores… There are so many ways that we can...
Worth More Than $42,000
In 2021, I fell victim to a wire fraud scam. Before I was supposed to close on my first home, I sent the down payment to who I thought was the real estate attorney.
Merciful Brokenness
I once worked for an employer whose leader had a policy that I not only disagreed with, but was also a source of harm and discrimination to myself and others whom I worked alongside.
No Silence
In the book of Obadiah, we learn about the nation of Edom and its actions during the Babylonian invasion. When calamity struck their neighbors, the people of Edom chose to remain passive, doing...
Dig it Up
I am not an over-zealous yard person, but I like green grass. My neighbor seems to enjoy dandelions! OK, so they don’t really LIKE dandelions, but...