Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.  If you do, you will have no reward from your Father...

My parents crossed a major milestone this past weekend as my dad prepares to join my mom in official retirement from long, beautiful...

When I was a school teacher, I often joked that the job would be a lot easier without all the kids…and private school parents for that...

Where does weariness come from?  It is felt physically, in muscles and joints and bones, in the eyes and even at times in labored...

Yesterday was a full day.  The majority of it was spent out in Forsyth county at a soccer tournament, where I was able to squeeze a run...

When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for...

I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a...

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;  Prov. 3:5 Eve’s vulnerability was that she didn’t trust...

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all...

“There is something moving in you that needs to stop,” said my counseling professor to me many years ago.  There is a hamster wheel...

Standing in a circle of four, holding hands with my neighbors and praying on Sunday afternoon brought tears streaming down my face....

As Terrell and I wrestle with the question of schooling for our children, a question that never needed wrestling before because we used...

Some time back, when buckling Martha Jane into her car seat, her finger got slightly pinched.  So, being a good mother, I kissed it and...

I was struck down by some sneaky but powerful virus this week which has kept me out of commission for the past three days.  “Out of...

In the movie Braveheart, there is at least one scene where a battle is about to take place and the peasants who have banded together...

I lift up my eyes to the hills.  From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.  He will not let...

When I think about what it might have felt like to be Jesus on the way to the cross and up on it, though of course only in part, it is so...

Not for the first time, in our neighborhood yesterday my children witnessed the handcuffing and arrest of a man.  It was a weird sight...

Its been apparent to me that I have an anger problem since I became a mother.  But, I should have been more clued in as a child who loved...

I tend to just want to fix people, as if it is up to my eyes to see their problems and my solutions to make them perfect. If I spend more...