From the inception of the creation God values life. The whole creation is alive, vibrant, and beautiful. Day after day God makes a glorious environment, full of wonder, woven together in …
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Sound of Freedom
Human trafficking. A heartbreaking problem that lurks around the edge of our artificial fortresses of security until we are forced to face its grim reality through our own tragic experience of …
Who Is King?
Psalm 33 is full of joy and promise, and verse 12 is the pivotal statement: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; the people whom He has chosen as His heritage! God’s favor rests on His …
Pick Me! Pick Me!
In elementary school I waited with baited breath each week as my first-grade teacher announced her five classroom helpers. “Please let me be the messenger. Please let me be the messenger,” …
Start with Worship
Start with worship. When Ezra and the exiles return to Jerusalem after seventy years, they come home to: devastation. Standing on the barren plateau where the Temple of the LORD once …
Launch the Boats!
Thrown in the deep end. When I started researching suicide, its causes, treatments, and prevention, it was because I was thrown in the deep end of the crisis pool. We’ve all been there, …