This week our church is beginning a new sermon series on the Psalms. The Psalms were primarily given to serve as a vehicle for the Church's corporate worship, giving varied and intimate expressions to our covenant relationship with God. The Psalms show us the kinds of sentiments God wants to hear ...
Click here to read the story alongside related pictures The story I want to share with you is so incredible that no human, no matter how imaginative, could have created such an amazing and multi-faceted story. The only explanation is that it is God’s story: a story of God’s ...
Throughout the years, Christians have celebrated the Christmas season in different ways. The Puritans, for instance, believed in the regulative principle of worship—that when it comes to worship, whatever Scripture does not command is forbidden. Since the Bible does not explicitly prescribe ...
It’s been a year since my husband and I moved to Santa Barbara from Charlottesville, Virginia. For Jason, the move meant coming home to the city where he’d grown up; for me, it meant finding a new home in California. One of our first questions even before arriving in Santa Barbara was ...
Was Sarah’s laugh a bit cynical? If you heard Kyle’s recent sermon on Genesis 18, you may have been pondering this. After an evening e-mail chat with a friend concerning the pain of this broken world, I woke up and sent this: My morning thought: We are apt to react in a silent ...
It’s the end of the summer, and I’ve been thinking about summers when I was young, when my family used to spend time on the tobacco farm in eastern NC where my dad had grown up. My grandparents’ farm wasn’t particularly large, but during those hot summer days, it became for ...
In the past two months, I’ve watched Fiona hone her five senses and learn to assimilate the sights, smells, sounds, tastes and textures she experiences. Now with the ability to walk, it’s as if she’s been set loose in an entirely new world. She is quite literally an explorer on a ...
When I was in my third trimester of pregnancy with my daughter, I received an insight on motherhood from an unexpected source. A manager with whom I worked at the time interrupted a business-related chat we were having in her office to share with me a tender memory from when her first child ...
Blogging for His glory? When I was a little girl, I used to love to write stories and did so with abandon. I liked writing about fanciful adventures and places, and injecting my stories with vivid colors and characters. As I've grown into an adult, writing has remained one of my passions, but it ...