"Sleep when baby sleeps." As an expectant mother, I cannot count how often this pearl of wisdom was shared. Before my child arrived, I...

“Sit up straight, Jessica!” My mother would often say as she gently touched my back. She was the definition of a true Southern lady.  ...

I, for one, find this to be exactly true. The older I get, the bigger God gets. I used to think I had a pretty solid grasp on theology...

I used to let others form my opinions for me. If people I looked up to said something or someone was good or bad, I didn't think too much ab

More than one year has come and gone since fully moving from Germany to the United States. How quickly the time goes, and how quickly the...

Exactly nine months earlier, I had shared the news with my husband that we were expecting. As first-time parents, we were excited and nervou

While Advent comprises four weeks with four themes, my heart tends to get stuck in week one - hope. Probably because hope seems to be the...

It's Christmastime again, and I'm looking at my little wooden nativity set—the one I bought for the girls to play with when they were small—

Did it seem like the Lord was putting obstacles in your way to steer you in a different direction than you had in mind?

Friendship is one of life’s most precious gifts. I spent this past weekend with wonderful friends. We’ve been through a lot together, and...

We’ve reached that time of year where I’m starting to reflect on the last 11 months and look ahead toward the flipping of the page to yet an

I have a friend whose daughter didn't listen to a thing her frustrated mother said. This otherwise sweet child would flatly ignore her unles

I had “the hurry” real bad today. Do you ever have “the hurry” too? It’s this constant hurry or rush from one thing to the next. The hurry c

Sometimes, life presents us with challenges that stretch us beyond what we think we’re capable of. It’s good to stretch our physical and men

What if Jesus really meant it when he said that “God so loved the world?” The whole world. All of it. Everyone in it. Even them. Even you. E

But I was young, naive, and hungry for attention. Of course, they knew all that. They picked their target well. All I saw were those soft br

So, you need to be caught up on what is happening; Debbie took a sabbatical which means I also took a break from the podcast and blog.

A friend asked me last week how do you have faith in God. I responded with, "What do you mean?" She says, "I mean, all the things you have

Does anyone else get to this time of the semester and just need a breath? The end-of-year school events, last Wednesday nights, last choir c

I sit crisscross, snuggled into my corner of the couch with my laptop open and stare at the blinking curser.  It’s a quiet Saturday morning