From This Day Forward 3/2/2022 - My husband Mike and I didn’t start our relationship in the traditional way a Christian marriage starts. In fact, we didn’t start out living for Christ at all. We met at a bar and moved in together shortly after. In our opinion, it was love at first sight... Read more
Train Up A Child 2/23/2022 - Proverbs 22:6 says “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Training/discipline is the most difficult part of parenting. It’s so much easier to compromise and give in just so there will be some peace. But that is a very selfish motive for not properly training your child... Read more
Roadblocks to Worship 2/16/2022 - Not all worship feels the same. Be honest. You’ve had times when you sang at the top of your lungs! God’s presence was palpable, and you were fully engaged in pouring out praise to the Lord. And then other times… you just aren’t as into it. Maybe you’ve found yourself mouthing the words, there physically but not truly present mentally or spiritually.... Read more
God's Kingdom 2/9/2022 - At 23, I had a personal encounter with the living God. From then forward, I committed myself to living according to His ways. I had been in church from the age of six months, and when I was six years old, I “walked the aisle” during revival. I grew up in a missionary family, and I was fully connected to church, even memorizing Scripture during Sunday school. My parents helped establish churches, and my brother and I were right along to help. Mostly in the nursery.During my mid-teen years, I grew bored with nursery work, and other things pulled me from my commitment to church. But at age 23, I had a spiritual epiphany that changed the course of my life... Read more
Spiritual Exercise 2/2/2022 - The year was 2016. I was six months postpartum. I don’t know if it was the Holy Spirit or hormones but when my Pastor gave a sermon about doing hard things and asked us to run a mini-marathon for the sake of clean water for villages in Africa, I was the first to say yes... Read more