There’s this silly thing floating around out there in the Christian sphere known as the “prosperity gospel.” Come to Jesus, they say, and all of your problems will be over! You’ll have money, you’ll have influence, you’ll have blessings… because Jesus is good! While it is true that Jesus is good, His goodness is not […]
“That was, without a question, one of the hardest things I have ever done,” Benjamin typed on his iPad one year ago in church, to avoid disrupting the service with whispers. I had watched while he walked back to his seat from his place at the piano and sat down heavily in our pew, and […]
There is a lot of hurt in our nation right now. A lot of despondency. Confusion. Anger. There is an overwhelming amount of frustration, on both sides. And there’s worry. Even from Christians. Even from those who voted for our new president elect. And into this tangle of emotion, people keep proclaiming the words, “Trust […]
These “life along with us” posts are a tiny peek into our lives to see how we are being stretched and grown by our loving Lord. We don’t always stretch happily, but God always finds ways to teach us more about Himself through it by leading us back to the truth in His Word. So, […]
Babies, babies, babies! Benjamin and I don’t have any of our own, but we happen to have quite a few nieces and nephews, including a brand new baby nephew! Most of them are toddlers nowadays, but they were pretty cute babies once upon a time, and I had some fun going through some old pictures […]
I’m not sure I can count the number of times that Benjamin and I swore that we would never do something, right before God called us to do it. Maybe a hundred? There was the time we said we would never go to grad school. (Hello, Clarks Summit University!) And then there was the time […]