forgiveness

“Rebekah, stop saying mean words to your sister Hannah! She loves you,” I corrected my oldest daughter a few days ago. We have had quite the battles with the tongue lately.
“Noooo! She does not love me!” Rebekah shouted. “When I was little, she took my paci out of my mouth and it was sooo rude.”

My pastor Todd speaks regularly from the stage about how the healthiest people in our church body are those who’ve gone through Celebrate Recovery and have dealt with their “hurts, habits, and hang-ups” in light of Scripture. I’ve held back from going to CR for a long time because I …

Last week, while we were eating out I gazed out the window and snow started sprinkling out of the dark sky, covering the sheet of snow on the ground. It was heavenly. So clean. Fresh. Pure. I could almost taste it. I laughed and smiled like a little girl. I …

Phillip Brooks, a 19th century clergyman once said that “Character is made in the small moments of our lives.” Typically, the real test of character is not in one huge defining moment but is in the daily choices made every day and that includes in the mundane details of life. …

My husband just wrote a really good post on guilt, God’s amazing grace, forgiveness, and freedom. Something we all need to hear as we daily battle the flesh within while still striving to live and walk in the Spirit. Check it out, be encouraged, and leave a comment.

Recently, my friend Cheli challenged me with something simple and profound. She said what if I lived my whole life with a passion for my marriage? Just how different would my marriage look? I haven’t run into too many people who say they want to have a lifelong passion for …

Abortion. It has happened to one out of four women in the church today (yes, the church). Abortion is familiar territory in my husband’s family. Sitting on her couch one day, my relative chose to reveal the pain she still carries today 35 or so years ago. Hers was performed …

For several months, I had seen billboards for I AM SECOND here in Dallas and never knew what it was. A few weeks ago, my pastor Todd did a message on prayer and showed a powerful video of a woman sharing her story of the hardships she faced growing up, …