Be Bold, Do Faith
For a week of summer in the 6th grade I got to stay at a camp that boasted a flotilla of canoes, one heck of a swimming obstacle course, horses for riding, white water rafting during the day, chapel in the evenings… and leeches. You should ask my cousin about those. They went for her [...]
For the wages of sin is death –Romans 6:23a (NIV) People love to look with tunnel vision at what others are doing wrong, but, rarely do they survey the gruesome and far reaching effects of their personal sin. I think many of us stop up our ears when it comes to this topic. We don’t want [...]
I told myself certain diagnoses were likely, prepped for the news down to the last expectant seconds as my husband and I took our seats in the psychologist’s office. But the words, out loud and official, slammed the Thing into reality, gave it legs. Before the sonic boom of the diagnosis, our Thing hadn’t existed. Only possibilities.
I LOVE our home. I don’t ever desire to complain about the blessing of this roof over my head. I only mention that Dustin and I singled out this particular residence as the home of our dreams three kids ago. Had we known the munchkin ratio within these four walls would increase by 100% it [...]
Dan Walsh’s The Reunion is the story of unsung hero Aaron Miller, who arrived home from Vietnam to begin a new battle with the ghosts of war. His marriage and children became casualties as Aaron sunk deeper into self-medicating his wounds. The Reunion begins many years after Aaron has lost everything yet managed to clean up [...]
God issued me a command: be BOLD, Jen. Easy for Him to say. Being BOLD is the opposite of what I do when I’m living life without depending on Jesus.