SPIRITUALITY & DEVOTION

DEADLY TEPIDNESS

When I look back on my years of motherhood, there were countless days that felt like an endless cycle of taxiing kids from one...

ESCALERA AL CIELO: ENSEÑANZAS PARA LOS CORAZONES MÁS PEQUEÑOS...

“Mamá, ¿puedo ir al cielo en avión?” Esa pregunta inocente de mi hijo de cuatro años me hizo reír pero también reflexionar sobre cómo...

ALAN JACKSON, LIFE, AND DEATH

This past year Alan Jackson sang his last live concert for country music fans. As a truly great artist who wrote and sang mostly...

LOVE, WORSHIP, EVANGELIZATION, AND SERVICE

The love of God is great, and each person is created to experience this love. The definition of love that is most appropriate for...

THE LONG GAME OF EVANGELIZATION: MIRRORING THE LORD’S PATIENCE

My mother, God rest her soul, would never have described herself as a good evangelist. She didn’t think she was any good at finding...

A FOUNDATION OF LOVE: CULTIVATING HUMAN FRATERNITY

Pots of fresh red tomato sauce simmered on the old gas stove in a cozy kitchen of a small Lutheran church. Eight students and...

A TIME TO REAP AND A TIME TO SOW

The air is becoming crisp. Fog hugs the grass and trees in the mornings. Leaves are slowly turning from green to orange and red....

THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK

The biggest issue of sin is that it makes us ignore Truth. The first dishonesty of sin is that when we commit it, we...

GROWING UP WITH YOUR KIDS

I remember the day I decided that I was going to venture outside of the house with my first child by myself. I was...

PSALM 91

Psalm 91: “Under His wings, you will find refuge” I have been reading a book recently called Walking with God by Tim Gray and Jeff...

THE DENTIST & THE CONFESSIONAL

Possibly the greatest pain that I have ever experienced in my life was when I was in need of a root canal. The pain...

SPORTS, A FAT MAN, & INTERIOR PEACE

I do not watch much TV anymore. I used to watch TV all the time. Actually, I used to watch sports and sports related...

LOVE CAN HEAL THE HURTS

I want to revisit a blog post I wrote awhile back, because it feels timeless, especially now, during Mental Health Awareness month. Scrolling through social...

EL TIEMPO DE LA CREACIÓN

El libro del Génesis inicia con una afirmación poderosa: “En el principio creó Dios, los cielos y la tierra”. Este versículo, más que marcar...

THE UNKINDNESS OF LIFE

 “I want to be a child climbing trees somewhere, breathing in the fresh, outside air, before I knew this life was unkind.” These are...