Just a mom wrestling with truth, faith, culture, fear, wonder, and the quiet questions that keep me thinking when I should be sleeping. These are simply ...
The month of June is celebrated as Pride Month, and while that isn't something I personally celebrate or affirm, I've noticed something among Christians that bothers me. June seems to be the one month each year when many Christians decide to loudly stand against sin. Suddenly social media is filled with posts condemning homosexuality. And while I do believe Scripture calls homosexuality a sin, I…
I’ve been studying the letters to the seven churches in Revelation and I noticed that the churches receiving the strongest rebukes were the ones that were comfortable, compromised, wealthy, spiritually sleepy, and externally religious. Meanwhile, the church facing persecution and the small, weak church with little worldly influence were the ones Jesus had no rebuke for. I think sometimes we…
This morning while driving the kids to school, we were about to pray together like we do every morning and I asked them what they wanted to thank God for today, and Adley said, “the rain.” That made me stop and pause because I had just been quietly grumbling about the rain in my head. It was cloudy. The warm sun wasn’t shining. It turned our 80 degree weather into gloomy cold 50 degree weather. My…
Imagine with me for a minute, you’re walking through a field and come across three trees. The first tree is beautiful. Its branches are full and its fruit is vibrant and healthy. And when you taste the fruit, it is unlike anything else. It’s sweet, refreshing, nourishing. It satisfies something deeper than hunger. And somehow, after eating from it, you feel more alive than before. The seeds inside…
What is love? This is a question that has been plaguing my thoughts for months especially when I look at the world around me. This question became more personal the more I thought about it and how the world around me defined it. There have been moments in my life where I genuinely believed I was loving someone well, and they didn’t experience it as love at all. There have also been seasons in my…
Was Jesus actually God or just a good teacher? Maybe just a prophet? I’ve been studying Colossians 1–2 and I think it’s gives one of the clearest pictures of who Jesus was. Paul does not describe Jesus as merely a good teacher, a prophet, a spiritual guide, or even just the Messiah. He describes Him in ways that would’ve sounded shocking, even dangerous to both Jews and Romans listening at the…
I’ve been studying in 2 Peter 1 lately, which says “In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly…
Passover starts this evening, and this is one of those things I feel like most people don’t fully realize the weight of. These feasts aren’t just old Jewish traditions. They tell a story and reveal a pattern. A blueprint of what God was going to do through Jesus long before it ever happened. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, people were shouting “Hosanna” and laying down palm…
I used to think questioning faith was dangerous. Now I think it’s necessary… I think at some point in life, everyone has to question their faith, not to lose it, but to decide whether it’s actually theirs. For me, that meant asking harder questions than just the credibility of the Bible. It meant asking “Do I believe this because it’s what I was taught to believe?” Or “do I believe it because I’m…
Romans 12:2 hit me differently today. For a long time, I thought this verse was mostly about thinking better thoughts. Not letting fear, anxiety, or negative thinking control my mind. And while that matters, I don’t think that’s all Paul meant. He says not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, so that we may approve the will of God. And that word approve…