Portraits
The fragrance of freshly baked pecan pumpkin pie wafted through the air. The chatter of children echoed throughout my parents’ home. Holiday weekend! Just then, my recently turned 8-year-old son, Carson, reached out his hand to be held in mine…
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Motherhood Discipleship
What’s the heart of discipleship? I recently read through a book that aims toward a strategy for Christians to live faithfully in a post-Christian culture. Written just several years ago, it’s incredibly relevant to our future as followers of Jesus in North America. Among many worthy quotes, one statement jumped off the page and, I believe, answers this question:
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If You Came Out of Hiding
If you came out of hiding
What would you find there?
Who would others see?
The real you
Your heart, mind true
Your past through all the distance, too
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Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World: BOOK REVIEW
Angry, fear-mongering Facebook video-posts go viral. Tweets echo like the “shot heard ‘round the world.” A mob of social media activists cancel a popular celebrity for a string of ill-spoken words. Politicians scream at each other on national television. A pastor’s moral ineptitude laces the news headlines. Christian pundits slam opposing political parties. All the while, we ought to wonder: Is this the way of Christ?
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What’s Your Temperature?
Here’s the truth: the COVID-19 crisis, political tension, and economic collapse of 2020 all mix together for a perfect recipe of maddening stress. The result? Anger heats up in all our relationships….at work, in the home, and even within the church, God’s family.
