When You Have a Prodigal Child

“Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them […]

4 Lessons From Lysa Terkeurst’s Divorce Announcement

Three years ago, Lysa Terkeurst and her husband stood before man and God and renewed their vows following a painful separation after infidelity. They gave so much hope to those walking the painful journey of infidelity, a reminder that God is able. And God truly is able. He is able to heal the most broken […]

An Open Letter to Lysa TerKeurst Revisited

On New Year’s Eve, Lysa TerKeurst, founder of Proverbs 31 ministries, announced her marriage is ending after nearly 30 years. It’s been several years since she made a similar announcement and I penned the following words to her. You see, in 2017 she announced her husband had been unfaithful and she was pursuing a legal […]

Five Reasons the Christian Life is Hard

Recently, I was reading an old blog post from when Roy and I were first married. In case you don’t know, our first couple of years were HARD…and that might be the understatement of the year! As if marriage isn’t hard enough, remarriages are even harder. When you take two people who have baggage from […]

30 Day Challenge

Let’s take the next 30 days to let God do a mighty work in us so He can do a mighty work through us!

New Beginnings

We are on the cusp of a new year, and many of us are more than ready to put 2020 behind us.

A Prayer for the Grieving at Christmas – Revisited

Perhaps you too feel as if this year has been a nightmare, destroying your peace and security. Perhaps you feel as if your very life is crumbling, collapsing. Perhaps you can no longer hold in the tears, no longer pretend everything is just fine.

Do You Have 2020 Vision?

How will we view 2020 years from now? Will we still have 2020 vision? Or will we have 20/20 vision?

A Prayer of Thanksgiving in the Midst of a Pandemic

In this crazy, chaotic life in which you live, it is so hard to carve out time before you to simply be still, to feel your presence and know you are God.

A Prayer in Light of the Election

Father God, we come to you utterly broken over the condition of our country. It is disheartening to see the division, the hatred, the intolerance.