Once upon a time there was a girl (ok, so she’s really a grown woman who still thinks of herself as a girl) who had a dream. It was a nice dream. A good dream. A safe dream. Her dream was to write a book about a blind horse whose story had touched her heart. […]
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A lesson from Billy Graham: No ministry is too small
In honor of Billy Graham and the unmeasurable impact his life has had on our culture, this post is an excerpt from one I wrote two years ago after visiting a Billy Graham exhibit at the NC Museum of History. You can read the entire post Here Yesterday I took my kids to a special Billy […]
Billy Graham
As a little girl, I used to preach to my stuffed animals. I would line them up and then passionately preach the Good News of Jesus to them, just like Billy Graham. As a shy girl who loved Jesus, I was fascinated by the dynamic man who taught the Bible to thousands. As a teenager, I […]
The only place comparison ever takes us is away from who we are meant to be
I reveled in the attention, as one stepping into sunlight after countless days of rain. As a painfully shy child who found making friends difficult, my then six year old self delighted in the crowd of children who surrounded me. Each one there to admire the fluffy little bunny I cradled in my arms. My […]
Exposing the puppeteer behind the curtain….
Over the last several weeks our pastor has been challenging us to trace the symptoms of our sin to the source of our sin. Lying, stealing, disobeying, lashing out in anger….all of these are symptoms of sin—outward evidence of an inward problem. So often I simply want to address the symptom without addressing the source. […]