I'm dreading packing. You heard me, packing. For close family and friends the word packing has the drama of cereal when associated w...

Time moves differently in Serbia. I don't know if it's the pace of this culture or that I'm so outside of my own routine. I lo...

I find myself breathless, surrounded by laundry, suitcases, and to do lists. If I knew then what I know now I wonder if I would have riske...

Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.   We a...

I'm not Ann Voskamp, or one of a dozen other amazing authors, I'm not sure if that fact dismays or delights me. It's been on my...

Yesterday I wrote about not being enough . Not enough to satisfy other people, or accomplish anything on my own really. Only Jesus is enou...

Leadership is a hot topic these days. And for good reason. The spiritual law of leadership is important. Defined by the Trinity and effect...

So, my garden is in a new phase. It's straggly. My squash plants died back and I had to trim and clear out a lot of stalks. I'm harv...

" Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her  to make her holy, cleansing her by the ...

I've been in a quiet, contemplative, prayerful place for the last week. I posted this as a facebook status last Thursday and it describe...

I was out of town most of this week and when I came back my garden was full of good things to harvest! I picked squash, rosemary, and ...

My Garden is pretty. It's welcoming and fresh and green. Things are blooming and happening. Each day something is bigger and more ripe t...

I wrote last week of 'Life Beyond the Cross' proposing that Christ's ultimate goal in his sacrifice on the cross was the unity ...

My adventures in gardening are beginning to pay off. I will be eating squash in no time and my cherry and Roma tomato plants are full of lig...

  As we approach the time of Jesus crucifixion I've been pondering, what was on his heart on the way to the cross? John 17 gives us a ...