My local grocery store has security guards. Maybe they’ve always been there but now they are uniformed and obvious and I don’t mind a bit. I recently spent some time in a few airports where I felt entirely safe, in part because there was an obvious security presence. Then I wandered a bit through downtown Seattle […]
Believers Refused to be Bullied
Don’t be bullied into not sharing the gospel.
October 22
Craft. Connect. Uplift. It’s a slogan attached to a coffee company. It makes me smile every time I see it. I appreciate company names or slogans that make you think. Like X-Spurts Plumbing. Loved that one every time I saw it as a kid riding in the back seat through Spokane. If you were selecting a slogan or name to describe […]
The Church is Tested
The believers’ witness was only as good as their integrity.
October 15
Have you ever had such a full heart of self-pity, self-doubt, self-recrimination that there wasn’t room for anything else? I can remember the place I was sitting, in a woman’s home, and the woman who was sitting beside me the first time I heard the life-giving words of Isaiah 55. It was the invitation and the […]
The Believers Grow Bolder
The believers grow bolder as the opposition grows more hostile.
October 8
There are so many women who are doing hard things, for extended times, and often with little support. Family relationships and difficult life-altering health issues; parenting and wishing to be a parent; consequences of things out of their control but impacting daily; grief and recovery. So many women (men too, of course), so many things. We can […]
The Lame Beggar’s Healing
The lame beggar’s healing provides further proof Jesus is working through his apostles.