Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen You Don’t Feel Like Yourself It was one of those mornings. My kids weren’t listening. My husband was irritable…
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Theology of Hormones
Reading Time: 5 minutesHormones and Holiness Hormones. We’ve all got them. We’ve all felt their effects. Hormones have been blamed for our weepy…
Trusting God When Life Feels Scary
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe reason Jesus told us not to fear is because life is scary. We fear the loss of life with…
Anxiety and the Gospel: When the Future Feels Heavy
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Anxiety Feels Like a Storm You Didn’t See Coming Anxious thoughts are like summer storms in the midwest. You…
Gospel Hope for Past Mistakes
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if your biggest regrets—about your body, your past, your choices—aren’t meant to haunt you, but to lead you into…
Honoring God With Your Body: More Than a Health Goal
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thing on Facebook that always stops my scroll is a photo of myself. A college friend will load a…
Even if He Doesn’t
Reading Time: 2 minutesMinistry—along with life in general—can break your heart. The soft-focus promos for small group curricula don’t typically emphasis this, but…
Being Jealous of Jane: When Envy Strikes
Reading Time: 2 minutesI woke up the other day with a task weighing on me. It needed to get taken care of that…
A Small Beginning
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was a Sunday evening in the spring. We were cooking out at a friend’s apartment. We watched as the…
Navigating Controversies: Lessons from a Decade off Blogging
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I stopped blogging ten years ago, the Internet was in the middle of a controversy. And now another controversy…
Deeper Idols and Answered Prayers
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask…
Book Review: Descriptions and Prescriptions
Reading Time: 3 minutesProzac changed society. Its approval, just a couple of years before I entered pharmacy school, ushered in a new class…
