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Looking Afresh At An Old Story
Maybe you’ve played an angel or a shepherd, or, if you were one of the “chosen few,” you’ve pulled off a smiling Mary holding a swaddled doll. The Sunday School re-enactment of the Nativity is a part of every Christian kid’s growing rites.
Over the years, we’ve read – and re-read – the passages from the ...
Why It’s Not Enough To Be Brutally Honest Before God
“Confide in God. Share your deepest anxieties with Him.”
I’ve heard similar sentiments throughout my faith life. And I completely subscribe to the idea that I don’t need to pretty things up before coming to Him.
Many, many times, I’ve approached God a blubbering, snotty mess, barely able to form coherent sentences. I rest in the fact ...
A Letter to My 9-Year-Old Son
Hey kid,
We’re at the halfway point. In another nine years, you’ll be an adult. I have no idea how we got here. And, – I don’t mean to scare you – but we really have no clue how we’ll raise you in the next nine either.
When you made your pink, wrinkly, wailing arrival into our world, your ...
How Being ‘Authentic’ Is Holding You Back
I find myself nodding in empathy as she describes how she let angry words spew from her mouth. She had said hurtful things to her kids that she now regretted. I knew exactly what she meant. “I’ve been there too. Don’t worry,” I said, relating couple of my own mommy meltdowns. We commiserated about how ...
Under the Cover of Grace
Every afternoon, on my way to pick my kids from school, I pass by a somewhat dismal, two-storey building with a bright blue roof. It has the word GRACE boldly painted across the entrance.
Now, let’s play a little game: If you had to guess, what would you say was inside the building?
Let me give you ...
He’s Not Done With Us Yet
Every morning before my kids head out the door for school we have a little devotional time. Well, to be more accurate, we try every morning to have a devotional time. Some days, I’m more devoted to exercising my lungs while I hurry them out the door.
On the days they’re dressed and ready and we ...
Stepping Out
I was shopping at Target last week when I ran into a 3-year-old I teach at Sunday School. (She was with her mom, people. This isn’t an article on free-range versus helicopter parenting.)
Anyway, the adorable thing looked up at me and said with wonder, “Teacher, I didn’t know you lived here!”
She wasn’t too far off ...
When Things Are Out of (Your) Control
Humility is not the opposite of pride. It’s the opposite of anxiety.
You won’t find that definition in Webster’s, but that’s how God’s been speaking to me about it recently.
As a family, we’re planning a big move that we believe God has called us to. But along with that decision comes cartloads of uncertainties. I’ve been ...
When You’re Not Feeling It
There are those rare occasions when I’m driving all alone in my mini-van – no one’s demanding snacks, asking if we’re “there yet,” or kicking the back of my seat. It’s just me and radio turned up louder than usual. Matthew West comes on the speakers with, “The Motions.”
I belt it out with him:
“I don’t ...
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