My social media timeline has been filled this week with back to school pictures of mama’s shedding tears as they lament their students growing older and transitioning to…
How do you view God’s word: As a roadmap or a rulebook?
Throughout our lives we are confined to different sets of rules. We are given guidelines in school, at home, and in the workplace. Don’t wear this, don’t eat…
Daily mental health practices and why they’re important
Take a break, they say. Self-care first. Meditation is good for your mental health, they say. Exercise. Yoga. Do this. Do that. But it’s all easier said than…
A slave to anxiety no more
Anxiety is defined as a feeling of distress, unease, and worry or being troubled due to future uncertainty. There is something about the human experience that causes us…
The love the world needs to see
My grandmother-in-law used to tell my wife that we all have a “love bank.” When someone loves us well, it deposits coins in our love bank. If someone…
When you feel like you’re about to unravel
It started slowly—or at least I thought it did. So many wonderful things filled my life: three beautiful children, a job I love, a nice house in a…
Reconciliation
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now … ” –Martin Luther King Jr. For many Americans today, the constant tension…
Even Jesus withdrew to pray
“But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. But he would withdraw…
