I received a message recently from a Facebook friend who asked this: “Cathy, you had a post awhile back regarding a young man, I think, with addiction problems that had died and how God sometimes calls people home, releasing them from their misery – does that...
A heretical bishop in the United Methodist Church had written that this story, told in Matthew 15:21-28 and in Mark 7:24-30, is an example of Jesus’ bigotry and misogyny, that he would ignore a Gentile woman’s pleading for help. But as I wrote then, after...
This little piece of wood with a cross and two sheep brings to mind a biblical image of one’s soul being ‘cast down’. Although it looks like the one little sheep closest to the cross on its back may be playfully rolling around, it is actually...
“Why would we rush to defend God to a broken world and not race to defend the image of God in the world’s broken?” – Ann Voscamp, The Broken Way Powerful! I was sitting in court for the second day waiting to give testimony regarding a woman...
Listening, hearing the hurt, knowing the truth of another’s loneliness and fear……and being able to persuade her that there is help, that you know Him, and will go with her to meet Him…or sit with her and cry, too, while you both wait for Him to...
