Control has control on me. It’s my thorn, my biggest enemy, my closest friend. I’ve been out of control a few times in my life… The many times we moved when I was growing up … Read More
Vote on my New Book Cover!
Sign up for the list here. Vote on your favorite cover here (it will take you less than a minute!) *** Well, it’s not really my new book cover (that’s over here!) but early in 2014, … Read More
The Biggest Scandal in Church History
Lately there’s been some recent scandals that have surfaced in the evangelical world. I won’t link to them, but it’s the stuff you hear about on a fairly regular basis: affairs, assumed affairs, embezzlement, frivolous spending, … Read More
Can We Love Others Without Loving Ourselves?
The following is a revised excerpt from my first book, Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic. I’m in the process of updating the book and expanding it with study guides, team workbooks, coaching, and … Read More
Why Finding a Church is Hard, Hard, Hard (Even for a Church Girl)
The only way I’d be more of a church girl is if my mom birthed me while she was teaching Sunday school. That didn’t happen, but it could have, I think. Most of my afternoons … Read More
Slaying My Gods of Blogging of Ego
Maybe it’s just vocabulary, and maybe I’ve always been “a blogger” (I did have my own AOL member page when I was sixteen, and purchased my first domain where I journaled in 1998). I officially … Read More
LINK: The Best Message I’ve Heard on Pornography
Last spring, I had the chance to hear Dr. Russell Moore speak at a college chapel and appreciated his to-the-point gracious intensity. Recently he preached at SWBTS (where both my parents attended in the 70s) … Read More
What Should Christians Do About Syria?
I am not a student of politics. I look at issues, I vote, I read the news. On occasion, I’ll show up to a city council meeting if it’s something I really care about (like … Read More
Feeling Stuck? Two Things to Help You Give it All (or Give it Something)
I was fairly certain I would never date again, let alone be married again. When you find yourself wrapped up in a crisis of an unexpected divorce that takes you from being with one person … Read More