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God: Father First
When I make an introduction, I usually preface it with my relationship to each party. I know Lisa from dance and Anne from lacrosse. Jesus does the same thing. When the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray, He introduces the Twelve to the first person of the Trinity with the term “Father.” Jesus…
Read More Prayer: Hurry Up and Wait
Silence. Crickets. Dead air. When it comes to prayer, have you ever prayed and then—nothing? I hate that. I dread the battle that’s coming between flesh and spirit. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is not. My flesh wants to: Run ahead of God. Take the bull by the horns. Say yes in spite…
Read More Because He Says So
Buy-in. When you have it, you can influence. Without it, you get pushback. As our kids grew older, reason became our tool to gain buy-in. Reason, we hoped, would aid compliance. Sometimes it did. Other times, not so much. (Did I mention our kids are really strong-willed?) As I grow older, I find the same thing.…
Read More Get Results in Your Spiritual Growth Now
Laughter rings through the neighborhood. A ball flies as preschool hands try to master catching and throwing. The ball rolls into the street, and off they go after it. But they don’t see the car. And the car can’t see them. You command “Stop!” in your sharpest, most urgent parental voice, and the small sneakers…
Read More Up Your Game For The New Year
Are you looking for this new year to be better than the last one? Less may be more. “He [Jesus] must become greater; I [John the Baptist] must become less.” (John 3:30 NIV) If you charted your life—finances, work, family, faith—what percentage of your life reflects the lordship of Jesus? Does He impact your finances,…
Read More Believing: An Angelic Perspective
“While I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.” (Daniel 9:21 NIV) “The angel answered, ‘I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you [Zechariah]…
Read More The Christmas Story: Joseph
He felt the rumbling in the village long before he heard the news. Word traveled fast in a small town like Nazareth. Groups of women clucked together at the market or by the village well. God help their next victim. He would be pecked to pieces by morning. Joseph checked his tools and headed for…
Read More An Unlikely Pair
God supplies our every need, and the Christmas story gifts us with many such examples. I love how He pairs Mary and Elizabeth. A young teen and an aged lady of great faith. Both fulfilling prophecy. Both experiencing pregnancy for the first time. One whose shame of barrenness had haunted her for a lifetime. One…
Read More The Long Wait
“A baby? Now? After all these years?” Her husband gave her a puzzled look as he tried to read her lips. Unable to speak. Unable to hear. He’d been like that ever since Jerusalem. Elizabeth began a nine-month game of charades. Zechariah’s eyes followed her every move. He had frightened her when he first arrived,…
Read More Christmas: Surviving and Thriving
Now that we’ve survived Thanksgiving and Black Friday, let’s turn our attention to Christmas holiday planning. For years Christmas was not my holiday of choice. Sandwiched between two of my children’s birthdays, Christmas formed the daunting middle miles of a December marathon. Take heart, we can survive December and even enjoy it, but it may…
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