I was visiting with someone about recent spiritual growth that had been brought about by some circumstances that were difficult. She experienced great growth in her faith and ability to trust God through it. Her insights had led her deeper in the Bible and prayer,...
As I talk with a number of female friends, students, those with whom I journey in spiritual education or spiritual counseling, etc. this issue of appropriately biblical marriage dynamics comes up again and again. As 45 years of marriage will attest, these can be...
I love this image: A dry scrubby shrub, just standing there as if it could do anything more, upon which God bestows the Fire of His Spirit to attract the attention of a curious meandering shepherd…. to speak from its branches …to invite and ignite one who had...
Lee Stroebel, author of The Case For Christ, talks about his wife’s conversion to Christianity and how he set out to disprove the Resurrection of Jesus in order to “rescue” her from the “cult” she’d joined. Her Christianity caused...
Bill and I are binging today on a TV movie series, The OA, described as a “spiritual thriller”. In it there’s a lot of speculation about Near Death Experiences, “NDE”, with an obsessed psychopathic scientist holding a group of NDE...
I’m reading “Touching Heaven” by Dr. Chauncey Crandall, recommended by women in my Sunday life group at church. “God surrounds every one of us with His kingdom at every turn – with messages and messengers, signs and gifts – and He...