Light

"This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, taht God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." - 1 John 1:5 Light means everything as it actually is out in the open without shame. Nothing dark or scary or hidden exists in the light. God doesn't do …

There is soundness in my flesh

I’ve been reading through the Bible chronologically. Lately I’ve been in 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Chronicles with Psalms sprinkled throughout. It really changes the way I read the psalms, because now I’m reading them smack dab in the middle of context. Having just read about David’s own son trying to steal …

Don’t be a dumb dumb

One time, in Old Testament Bible times (1 Samuel 28), King Saul went to a medium to find out what he should do and he went in a disguise. In a disguise. To a medium. To find out what he should do. As king. In a disguise. To a medium.   Saul was going to …

What Dreams Are Made Of

This morning I listened to a sermon on my favorite passage in the whole bible, Ephesians 3:14-21. It’s so good, so here it comes. For this reason I bow my knees before my Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory He may …

Judges 4: The Feminist Chapter

“And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, ‘Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.’ So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug… But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her …

Vast and Amazing and Unimaginably Ginormous

I'm at a YouthWorks training this week. People from all over the place are going to work together this summer. We come from different states and regions. It turns out people in the South handle conflict differently than people in the East. And this is important! And it helps us grow. I am so grateful …

A Prayer for Donald Trump

A couple of months ago we made Prayer Jars at Bible Study. We decorated the outsides and filled them up with little pieces of paper. On the pieces of paper are the names of people we want to pray for. Every day - well, most days - I pull out a little piece of paper …

Lent this Year

I know that Lent is almost upon us because today my Michigan friends were posting pictures of paczkis on Facebook. And yes I had to look up how to spell that word. Growing up Baptist Lent was not something I observed or practiced or even knew anything about. Once my world expanded a little bit …

The hard work of starting over

This morning I woke up and as it is my day off, decided to not get out of bed for a while. So I watched Dylan Marron's YouTube channel for a while, scrolled through Facebook, etc. I also got up 4 times to answer the phone for work related calls and got increasingly grumpy every …

My Cold and Broken Hallelujah

Two years ago the acapella group Pentatonix released their first Christmas album. Last year I pretty much played Mary Did You Know on repeat for the entire month of December. If you haven't heard their Christmas songs, get out from under your rock and YouTube it. Their rendition of Little Drummer Boy is the only …