I am always delighted to pray for those in need of it, whether people I know or total strangers. I wince a bit, however, when people say, “Yeah, I asked […]
The first chapter of Romans states that one of the causes of sexual perversion begins with the failure to be grateful to God. “For even though they knew God, they […]
The vacation spot our family has gone to for decades – since I was a preschooler – has decayed so much culturally over the last several years that my husband […]
There is a lot of speculation over John 11: 35, the shortest verse in the Bible – “Jesus wept.” Why did Jesus weep? The verse comes in the context of […]
If ever there was a picture of a political nerd, it was me. In high school, I spent a week in D.C., learning about government in person, and sitting in […]
There is a rousing declaration tucked away in Psalm 125: “The scepter of the wicked shall not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might […]
The man was a biker, bearded and bald under his baseball cap. Tattoos snaked around his arms and the back of his neck. He was at the playground with his […]
“Fantasy is the easiest way to initiate young people into the occult.” So stated Anton Lavey, founder of the satanic church. The occult is defined by Merriam-Webster as “that which involves […]
As mentioned in a previous blog, I recently finished Eric Metaxas’ pulse-racing biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The parallels between what this Christian martyr faced just a few decades ago in […]
Reading Eric Metaxas’ blockbuster biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer has stirred my spirit. It reads like a thriller more than a work of nonfiction, and I find myself agonizing over the […]