This past summer we celebrated my daughter Hillary’s second birthday and one of my other children decided to make her a gift. The gift was…
I am standing in my bathroom getting ready for church like I do every Sunday, but today is not just every Sunday. Today is a…
I am in the front yard of what I have called home for years and years and I am lighting up sparklers. I light up…
Gather up the children. It is time to tell the Christmas story. It is the season of the Telling. It is a story that has…
Here is an almost daily scene in our house. “Mama, she….” “I did NOT! I was just…” “You did, too! I saw you!” “I did…
Eating is something that we generally take for granted, especially in a country of abundance where few of us have ever faced a true scarcity…
If you studied Classics you are probably familiar with The History of the Peloponnesian War written in 431 BC by Thucydides. However, if you are…
We do not have to look very long at Matthew 18 in order to see the logic flow that takes place. It starts with the…
Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday. It was also the day in which our sermon series on Matthew 18 brought us to the issue of having our sin confronted (Matthew…
Mothering is a major theme in Scripture. And when God takes a mother’s barren womb and makes it fruitful it is particularly celebrated. There are…
All of us experience moments in which we seem reduced to trying to do nothing more than survive. In those moments it is all we…
The Gospel of Matthew is broken up into five discourses. The fourth discourse, which is found in eighteenth chapter, is often called the Discourse on…
I’ll never forget the day that I realized just how real my blind spots were. If you would have asked me before that day whether…
About ten years ago I was both a new mom and a new therapist wandering in the desert that is known as Fresno, California. I…
I have a confession to make. I have always struggled over the way we talk about thanksgiving (the attitude, not the holiday). I am not…