Have you ever noticed how hard kids sometimes work for something make-believe? My kids will go outside, gather sticks and buckets of rocks almost as big as they are, drag them to another side of the yard, drop them into a useless pile, and then go right back to get more, sweating and […]

  WHAT IS ANNOTATING? So before we really get into it, maybe we should break down what annotating is before we discuss the 5 things you should be doing with it. There is a difference between reading to study and reading for the sake of reading. When you are reading to study, which is something […]

      This week I made a poll on my Instagram to see how many of my Christian friends currently have an older mentor in their life, and then I asked how many of them are currently mentoring someone younger. The results were actually pretty interesting:  First of all, more than 60% of these women do not have […]

“The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions.” – Proverbs 28:1 (NLT)   A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away. Don’t believe me, google it. When I read this, something clicked… I need to be more like a lion. My roar, my […]

  Last week, we talked a little about humble obedience and how important it is in becoming more Christ-like. But what does that look like, practically speaking? How do we know if we are being obedient to the Lord and why is it really that important?  In Philippians 2:12-18 Paul gives us three ways to […]

I clearly remember the day, down to the minute, when I answered my phone and heard my sister crying as she said, “Mom didn’t make it.”  My heart dropped to my feet as I tried to process what had just happened.  We all knew that this was coming when Mom was moved to Hospice.  She […]

I love the book of Ecclesiastes!  Now, don’t get me wrong:  I’m not dressed in all black with jet black hair wearing unusual looking bracelets and listening to sad music (no offense to modern-day emos…); it’s just that after my mom passed away, I needed to feel that someone understood the emotional devastation I was […]

  Humility. It’s not a word we find much in our self-love, self-affirming world, right? Yet we wonder why our world is so divided.  After Paul has made an exhortation to the Philippians to become united with the same love and the same mind, he gives them the practical way to do this:  “Do nothing […]

  Summer is coming, and it looks like a lot of vacation spots will be open this year! It wouldn’t be surprising to find the beaches pretty crowded as people are so ready to get out of their houses and have some fun – just to get away from it all. However, these thoughts bring […]