Category: discipleship
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› Read more: Shifting from Security in Place to Security in Presence
Shifting from Security in Place to Security in Presence
God’s incredible interactions with Abram have long been precious Scripture passages for me. I’ve studied them so many times that…
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› Read more: To Remember Rightly: The Great & Terrible Wilderness and the Great & Awesome God
To Remember Rightly: The Great & Terrible Wilderness and the Great & Awesome God
Memory is a funny thing, isn’t it? My first memory is being pushed around in a dolphin cart at Sea…
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› Read more: The God who Sees & Hears: Atonement & Attunement
The God who Sees & Hears: Atonement & Attunement
One look from my most loved ones can level me. A look of fear from my son on the pitching…
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› Read more: How Teenagers Have Changed My Prayer Life
How Teenagers Have Changed My Prayer Life
Before parenting teenagers, I would have given myself a passing grade at prayer. I felt, at least, moderately faithful and…
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› Read more: Early in the Morning
Early in the Morning
To know me well is to know that I am not a morning person. I want to be because of…
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› Read more: Christ’s Vulnerability in the Garden of Gethsemane
Christ’s Vulnerability in the Garden of Gethsemane
As we approach Holy Week, there are two realities that shout from the gospel records of Jesus’s days in approach…
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› Read more: My Prayer for the Upcoming Political Season
My Prayer for the Upcoming Political Season
May your political conversations be few, fruitful, and face-to-face. Simple, but far from easy. I am a preparer and a…
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› Read more: Lessons from the Leper: The Courage to Come
Lessons from the Leper: The Courage to Come
Thanks for advances in modern medicine and germ theory, most of us have never experienced leprosy. However, our culture knows…
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› Read more: Scarcity & Abundance (lessons learned from the Cereal Police)
Scarcity & Abundance (lessons learned from the Cereal Police)
My older sons fight for a very strange office in our household: the cereal police. The cereal police plays the…
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› Read more: Ashen yet Adored
Ashen yet Adored
Having grown up in the Catholic Church, I grew accustomed to getting ashes smudged on my forehead to signify the…