This is the call to prayer for our brothers and sisters in South Africa. Please join us! See below:Yesterday I was overcome with a horrible sense of grief. I couldn't stop myself from crying uncontrollably for about an hour. I didn't know why. When I asked God what...
The level of pride evident in many of our world leaders is astonishing and very disheartening. Seeing the responses of some world leaders to the recent COVID-19 crisis left me wondering if they would pop if I pressed a pin into them. Aren't our leaders supposed to be...
There it was. That little black line on the map leading to a remote hot spring in Grenada. And where there's a black line on the map, there must be a road.When the entrance to the road was where it was indicated on the map, we took courage. We pointed the nose of our...
"But one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." (Luke 10:42 ESV)In the story of Mary and Martha, we might wonder why it seemed Jesus chided Martha, who was earnest about showing hospitality. Martha had received...
Yesterday there was a mountain on my driveway. Literally!Early in the morning a dump truck dropped 7 cu yards of gardening soil just in front of my garage. It would have to be moved – shovelful by shovelful into a wheel barrow, and then shovelful by shovelful -- into...
On Tuesday, I told the story of how God moved my mountain -- literally! -- as my husband and I attempted to move 7 cu meters of gardening soil from our driveway to our new garden beds, one shovelful at a time, and all before the rains came.The garden beds were...
On Tuesday and Thursday this past week, I told the story of how we built garden boxes and filled them with dirt, and how this gave me a whole new perspective on mountain-moving faith and the faith that Abraham must have had when he left his home to wander in a foreign...
My son, a PhD student, had fallen behind on his research. Much of this was due to a major comprehensive exam that, complicated by the fact that the university closed down due to COVID-19, took almost two semesters to complete. As a result, he was unable to meet his...
We aren't told much about Enoch in the Bible. In fact, the sum of our knowledge comes from a few verses.First of all, we know his parentage: "When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch...When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of...
We were moving all of the Sermon Illustrator files to a new, mobile-friendly format, and this has required hours of tediously copying old files, pasting them into the new format, and then reading them through in order to put them in appropriate categories. I am happy...