One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet. – Proverbs 27:7 For my flesh is real...

Ever since my ever-so-gentle literary rejection, I’ve been struggling with what to do with my manuscript. Do I relegate it to indefinite...

The summer I turned 15, I went to my one and only church camp. I wish I could say I was transformed there, that an altar call drew me...

“I just don’t understand,” I wailed, and sucked in a phlegmy breath for the rambling and Scripturally reckless run-on sentence which...

A few nights before my dad died we were gathered around him, wondering just how close the end was. I was playing hymns for him on my...

“I think Jesus was a woman. That’s what I believe." She says it plainly, boldly, her eyes smoldering with the heady drug of open...

I heard His voice for the first time when I was out of my mind on acid, tripping hard, as the parlance went back then: I sat at the...

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your...

I thought I would open by sharing some of my dad’s classic sayings and expressions. They won’t be nearly as funny in my voice, but...

“I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.”  - John...

Note: I wrote this two months ago, but it just didn't seem like the right time to share it until now. It’s been three weeks since the...

“When I felt secure, I said, ‘I will never be shaken.’  Lord, when you favored me, you made my royal mountain stand firm;  but when you...

"Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold." - 2 Corinthians 3:12 One of my all-time favorite cinematic scenes comes toward...

For years, it was the longing that had no name, the longing that I wouldn’t allow myself to name. Denied and suppressed, it took on ugly...

“Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your...

“We’re just spinning leaves in the flight of a dawn, little girl Falling through an eternal horizon of time But I’d like to think as we...

“Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were influential; not...

I wouldn’t have even noticed the display as we hurriedly passed by it, late as usual to one or another of our homeschool co-op...

“My mom ALWAYS cries when she reads this story to us,” my son loudly proclaimed to the librarian as we stepped up to the desk with a...

Fun facts: On our first date, Steven asked to use the bathroom in my apartment before we went out. He spied a small cardboard box in my...