Bible. Faith. Life.
Bible. Faith. Life.
Giveaway, prayerThe hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don’t guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine your faith. Sometimes your only option is to trust because it is the last card in your hand, but it’s the wild card. . . .By definition, praying hard is praying when it’s hard to pray.” (excerpt from …
Bible study on Ruth, God's faithfulnessI’m doing something I’ve never done before. I’m finalizing edits for my first published book. The copy-edits are done and now I’m proofreading my manuscript again before it goes to the type-setter and then to the printing machines! And if all goes as planned, the Bible Study will be released sometime in October. It seems fitting that on a week when …
shemaIn her book, Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg tells of the story of Rabbi Eliezer Silver who, in 1945, led a search for thousands of Jewish children displaced from their families. They had been tucked away in monasteries, farms, and convents across Europe to escape Nazi genocide. Few records proved the children’s heritage. In one monastery, Silver, unable …
A few years ago I worked as a care assistant for an elderly neighbor. It was the one paying job on my daily eclectic list of things to do. It only took an hour or so of my day, but I felt a pressing in my spirit to stop working. There was a restlessness in me. The joy of the …
What does it mean to find purpose beyond today? It means finding eternal purpose. . . purpose beyond what will fade away. For many years I struggled with this thing called “purpose”. I wrestled with my identity and my vocation as a full time stay-at-home mom. Surrounded by blessings, even filled with Jesus, I felt something was missing. I wondered if …