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Book Review: Church Behind the Wire
There’s something about the Christian life that is so contrary to the human disposition; there is something so completely backward about this life with Jesus. Barnabas Mam in his book, Church Behind...
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Naked in 2013
Welcome to 2013! I have been bumbling this morning, trying to encapsulate everything I want to share with you. A chronic problem of mine, (I’ve had it since college) is that I don’t know how to...
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Inciting Incidents: Best book for long days, tough years, hard seasons
“Inciting” comes from the Latin word incitare which means “to put into rapid motion, urge, encourage, and stimulate.” In the 21st century, most of us already feel like our lives are on a crash course...
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February in poetry
Snowflakes, fingerprints of heaven fall A cross between drips of creamy milk and pin-sized shards of tinsel Soft, liquid, hard and brittle Till touching dirt, the life of man Where it melts and dies...
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Starved and Bored
“You don’t realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.” C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Sounds a lot like last week’s post, Stripped of Chaos. However, humbly I admit that Lewis...
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Reputable Fame
“Quantitative analysis revealed that fame was the number one value, selected as the most important value for participants’ future goals,” according to a study done by psychology professors at the...
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What Does He have to do with You?
“When the humans disbelieve our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct terrorism and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us we cannot make the materialists and...
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Book Review: Fierce Women
Fierce Women is not unlike a couple books you’ve read before. But then, most lessons aren’t only learned once. What sets Kimberly Wagner’s book apart is that she isn’t preaching from the sidelines....
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It feels good! To do, or not to do, remains the question.
If it feels good, do it. If it feels this good, it can’t be wrong! “When asked to describe a moral dilemma they had faced, two-thirds of the young people either couldn’t answer the question or...
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Stay in the Moment
Be present! Stay in the moment! It might well be the mantra of the decade. It is hummed from the yoga mat, preached from the pulpit and scribbled in the margins of self-help books. I warrant, it’s...
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Complimentary Devotional
Dear Friends, I have been privileged in the last several months to contribute to Believer Life. This is a bi-monthly publication, sent directly to a subscriber’s inbox in .pdf form. Writers come from...
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Me, a glutton?
Being Naked is nothing if not humbling. As God would have it, the brilliant theologian, C.S. Lewis has struck me where it hurts the most. In so many ways, I have healed from anorexia. In so many ways,...
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First comes love, then comes marriage?
Last weekend Patrick and I participated in a marriage retreat called Strong Bonds. True confession, as this blog is entirely about, it was emotionally difficult for me. Sometimes, I feel as if I’m...
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Body Image and the Traditional Family
Have you ever thought about how body image is directly related to the demise of the family in modern society? The traditional family is not simply under attack, but at this point has been so viscously...
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Is time on your side?
What really, really ticks you off? I mean, what really gets under your skin? Is it the guy who cuts you off in traffic? I just realized, with the threat of a snow storm here tomorrow, that I actually...
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History Disguised, a book review
Ruth’s Redemption I love history, especially when I have no idea that I’m learning! Ruth’s Redemption is an engaging love story, wrapped in an accurate account of the slow, painful collapse of slavery...
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What’s in a 3 letter word?
What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call “Christianity And”. You know – Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity...
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Book Review, The 11:45 Call
The 11:45 Call, is an expository Bible study of the book of Jude. Appropriately titled, it highlights the urgency of the times. Co-authors, Joel F. Blakely and Brenda Klutz Blakely, methodically...
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Book Review: Dreams and Visions
Most often, modern sensibilities demand that we relegate dreams and visions to either bygone means of God communicating with people, or the loony bin. Or, harkening to Ebenezer Scrooge, “a bit of beef...
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Book Review, Steppin’ Into the Good Life
For a change of pace, I chose an uncharacteristic genre for me, as my next Moody Publishers book review. Sometimes you just have to stop with the insights, pause the theology, set aside the deep...
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