Family

The essence of judge not lest you be judged involves valuing individuals as God values them.  We are not our sins…nor are we our good deeds.  We are created beings, made in the image of a high and holy God.  Judgments detract from that beautiful truth by using an inaccurate ...

Just because you have power, doesn’t necessarily mean you have to use it.

The boy’s father was at wits-end, was there any hope for his son? It had gone on for years, the boy’s twisting and thrashing about, so badly that he foamed at the mouth and attempted to throw himself into the home’s fireplace. He’d even come close to drowning when he’d ...

Growing up, one of my favorite family connections was playing games. Not digital or electronic games, but card games, board games, and physical games like charades. I loved the satisfaction of shoving off someone’s pawn when I drew a “Sorry” card. The anticipation in a wavering hand as it tried ...

At some point, we all ask the question, what do I do now?  Everything we know to do, everything we believe to be right disintegrates before our eyes.  At the end of all we can do, all that is left is to surrender our self-sufficiency and beg for direction.  Can ...