My God, whom I praise,     do not remain silent,  Psalm 109:1 There are times when my faith is challenged by what feels like God’s...

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish...

As I’ve watched Ellie navigate  a new world of authority figures this year, both at school and at soccer, there have been some that just...

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and...

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests...

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  Matt. 12:34 With the...

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.  The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same...

So, I haven’t been able to write as much in the past year as I once thrived in doing.  At first it was because we were in Uganda and had...

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where...

Sadness has landed on me like a weighted vest this morning.  Walking through a conflict of justice with those who do harm not out of...

If I could choose a divine nature to take on for myself, I would definitely be like the Greek gods, enjoying festivals and power and...

Our introduction to public school has been on one hand sweet and smooth and the other, depressing and disappointing.  We left an...

Martha Jane has this endearing and simultaneously perplexing response to being disciplined…she immediately reaches out for an embrace and...

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be.  I fear that there...

Sometimes my brain feels like a machine with red lights flashing and sirens blaring with a message that says, “Overload!  Overload!...

Back in July, Ellie and I had a wonderful weekend in New York City where we saw almost every block of Manhattan, mostly on foot.  Our...

What is the place for conflict within the community of grace?  Clearly it is the method by which pseudo becomes authentic, the Velveteen...

“‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary.  I am the Lord.“‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my...

So, as mentioned previously, we have had an uptick in gang activity in our neighborhood lately.  No shoot outs or anything worthy of a...

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken…For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope...