The more serious the temptation…. the less we admit to it.

The more serious the temptation, the less we admit to it.  Ten years ago, Barna released a survey exploring the new realm of temptations. Sure, that loaf of bread we want or the dessert we gave up for Lent still calls our name, but temptations are different in our new...

It was the best of times . . .

Remember that quote from A Tale of Two Cities? (Actually, I didn’t. I had no clue where it came from; I’ve just always heard ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’) And I’ve always known that to be true. Have you ever experienced that? Something being...

Managing Your Junk

  Do you ever have a tendency to lose things? You know you “once had it” but you haven’t seen it in quite some time, so it’s easier to consider it lost than to go digging around for it. Especially if the places we need to go digging are...

Leave it!

Tom and I recently adopted a dog named Mitzi from the Humane Society. We’ve known we wanted a German Shepherd dog friend for Axel for a while, but a puppy was not on our radar. Until a friend who volunteers at the shelter sent me a picture of the cutest litter of...

The Pit in Our Stomachs Tells us something!

What gives you that pit in your stomach? That feeling of knowing that SOMETHING is wrong and the odds are that you’ve caused it! There is either something that you should NOT have done or . . . . there was something you were supposed to do, and you completely...

The Cross Levels Us

The cross levels us. No, it doesn’t “knock us down,” . . . but it levels us. It makes us all equal. And today, we all stand getting a glimpse of the cross. It’s off in the distance, not really looming upon us (yet), but it is still there. We all stand glimpsing the...