Our relationship with our parents as we grew up created countless defining moments. That's a given. We kind of realize that even as kids. What we often don't brace ourselves for is how the [...]
A few years ago, Marie Kondo captivated me with The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Filled with adventure, decluttering, and searches for what “sparks joy,” her message of simplifying [...]
A few days ago I met up with a friend for coffee. We talked about our families, work, school, and everything else. Then our conversation turned to faith and the seasons in life when it seems like [...]
All of our lives orbit around something. For Christians, it's easy to say that our lives orbit around Jesus. But the truth is that we have a lot of things competing to be our center: Family [...]
"Jesus, what do you have to say to me through these Bible verses today? How do they relate to my life and how can I apply them?" This has been the prayer on my heart as I've read the Bible for [...]
My dad has always been a great storyteller. Though he was silly at times when he told them (similar to the way Jesus taught his disciples), my dad taught me a lot about the world and about faith [...]
Nothing says summer to me like the smell of campfire, roasting marshmallows for s'mores, and telling stories. Whether you’re in the back yard or deep in the woods with the stars overhead and [...]
"It's wrong to should people into a love relationship, and it's worse than wrong--actually, heretical--to should people into a love relationship with Jesus." --Rick Lawrence, The Jesus-Centered [...]