It feels sort of sacrilegious to use the term ‘blah’ in connection with God but the blahness has to do with me, not God!  I’m…

There is nothing new under the sun.  So it’s no wonder God uses the same strategy to encourage His people as He did thousands of…

For all our married life Mark has struggled against alcoholism.   By the grace of God, he has been winning the battle consistently for over six…

I was 22 when I came to know Jesus, and before that I hadn’t really thought about how to love the unlovely or annoying in…

Church life is far from perfect or even relationally safe.  How could it be when it is made up of people? We’re all just sinners…

I wrote this thirty years ago.  Today, I would have responded differently to this situation with more grace, I hope.  I had survived breast cancer…

Here’s a true confession.  When I was in junior high, I was what could be called ‘boy crazy’.  I didn’t have a personal relationship with…

After the first day of college, I was scared. So scared that I came home, went immediately to the freezer, and ate one quarter of…

One of my favorite things to do is study the Bible with others.  In the first few years of my walk with the Lord, I…

I am including the setting of this journal entry because I was temporarily but comfortably imprisoned upstairs.  All I had was a chair, bible, pen,…