How to Live a Purposeful, Not-Boring Life: Don’t spend all your money on yourself, your kids and your grandkids. If you tithe / give to your church, don’t act like the rest of your 90% is meant for you to hoard. Like it’s all yours because you earned it. (Where did this mindset ever come from?) Make […]
Stop the Killing: Is there any hope?
I was driving to a friend’s church this morning when I heard the news on the radio that three Baton Rouge police officers were killed this morning and three more injured. Baton Rouge, the same city where police shot and killed Alton Sterling on July 5th, which was videotaped. This was the day before Philando […]
Why Ken Ham’s Noah’s Ark Attraction Makes Me So Sad…
I read The Associated Press article “Noah’s ark of biblical proportions ready to open in Kentucky” (by Dylan Lovan) in the Grand Rapids Press this morning. There is one quote from this article that makes me so sad. Sad as a word doesn’t even begin to describe the depth of emotion and righteous anger I […]
Grace Filled Sexuality
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase grace filled sexuality? I know I have Jesus’s grace, so if I live sexually in a way that is different than God’s design/commands, I’m okay and I’ll be forgiven. The Christian whose sexual desires differ from God’s design for sex often find themselves in quite a […]
#GiveElsaAGirlfriend Campaign for Frozen 2 Shows Our Empty Definition of Love
Trending on Facebook this week is the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend hashtag, a campaign lobbying to give Disney’s Frozen star a female love interest in the upcoming sequel. Idina Menzel, the actress who plays Elsa’s voice, made headlines when asked in an Entertainment Weekly interview about the campaign, “I think it’s great,” she told ET on Sunday of […]
If you want to see God, just open your eyes
A cup of dirt my 4-year-old brought home from “Garden Club” sits on my kitchen window sill. The transparent plastic gives all in the house a crystal clear view to this small sample of earth. Three tablespoons of water a week, that’s what this cup of dirt needs. Just three tablespoons of water poured onto […]