Be radical in 2013
Radical is defined as someone who advocates significant and often extreme change. I'm challenging you to be radical this year, not in the sense that you rebel against authority, or become extremist in...
View ArticleNew Beginnings
This time of year is full of new beginnings for many of us...new Bible studies, new courses, new projects of all sorts. God created the seasons to give us variety in life, and each new season comes...
View ArticleGot big plans? Great! But start small.
Research on the Millennial generation, women under 28, has discovered that some, maybe many, Millennials expect to realize their dreams quickly, without "paying their dues" or "rising up through the...
View ArticleOne reason doctrine is a dirty word to Millennials
Last week, during class discussions, two bright young male students helped me understand why many millennials are down on doctrine. The first student, a recent grad from a secular university, told our...
View ArticleWhat I learned from Prof
"How would you like to be married to you?" Prof's voice would swagger as he stared into the face of the wide-eyed green seminary student on the front row. Then Prof would wipe his nose on his sleeve, a...
View ArticleLessons from a dog's seeing-eye dog
Did you see the story about Jack and Chico on the news this week? Both are middle-aged cattle dogs who found themselves at a Denver shelter when their owner tragically and suddenly passed away. But...
View ArticleWays I Make Jesus Heartsick
We've been studying the book of Revelation at the women's Bible study at my church. And this spring, we've focused on Jesus' letters in the first three chapters. Did you know that Jesus wrote seven...
View ArticleYour Gifts--God's Megaphone
It's been almost forty years since I received my first phone call and note of encouragement. I was a wife without a clue how to love my husband, a mother without a clue how to raise the two beautiful...
View ArticleThe Boston Bombers, Face to Face with Evil
Last week we looked into the face of evil, yet people who knew the Boston Bombers were clueless. Why? The first time I came face to face with raw evil was on a prison ministry trip to the largest...
View ArticleWhy Make a Name for Yourself?
Have you ever gone through boxes of old unlabeled pictures to find that you can't identify your own relatives? You may resemble them, but you don't know their story. Did they make a name for...
View ArticleKeep up or Tune Out?
It's getting where I'm afraid to turn on the news. Children under mountains of rubble, buried by a monster tornado. The IRS targeting, even auditing conservatives multiple times, and the government...
View ArticleNon-mentoring Mentoring
Young women hunger for mentoring, but did you know that the dropout rate of young women in traditional mentoring programs is as high as eighty percent in the first six months? Mentoring methods...
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