It was the Sunday before Thanksgiving week. Henry, a caring minister, had just closed out the morning service and was standing at the church door greeting and s...
Matthew 5:27-30
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, was written as an indictment against the Puritanical beliefs of his day. The main character, Heste...
Romans 16:1-27
History has recorded many ideas about the final evaluation and final state of humans beyond death. Jesus told the parable of the rich man and ...
Romans 12:3-8
We live in a time when people place great emphasis on the physical body. But what does God have to say about our bodies?
God’s Grace Helps U...
Relationships are complicated. My husband and I were friends for a year before we started to date. Before he finally asked, however, we danced around each other...
As a therapist, a lot of my work seems to center around certain specific dilemmas for each age group I see. Many of these dilemmas are focused around peer press...
Romans 5:6-11
New relationships can elicit a variety of emotional responses: fear, excitement, uncertainty, dread, and depression. A young person who has to ...
Christians have often struggled with how to think best about boundaries in broken relationships. Some use the word “boundaries” to communicate that Christians d...
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus...
It’s hard when you’re in-between. In-between jobs, in-between relationships—limbo.
You feel like you’re drifting purposelessly on an endless sea, going nowhere...
A mandate is an official order or commission to do something. That’s the noun. The adjective form is mandatory. Sometimes we don’t like mandates—including the o...
For everyone missing their mom this Mother's Day...
Love you Mom…
So…today I’ve put a moratorium on “your mom” jokes.
My mom has always been a source of g...