Words for Wednesdays Sometime Bible characters get stuck in the Bible and all lumped together. When we imagine the Israelites in the wilderness, we smash them into one person, as though with a single voice they cried out, “We want meat!” We forget that they were people, just like us,…
Words for Wednesdays Books that change your life are hard to find. Especially when they were written a hundred or more years ago, and have since gone out of print! If you have spoken to me for 5 minutes about books, I’m sure you’ve heard me rave about Lamplighter Publishing.…
Words for Wednesdays A shy girl stranded all alone amidst a tribe of headhunters in the Philippines. Action movie? No. Amazing biography. The story of Joanne Shetler’s life as written in And the Word Came with Power fills you with awe about our amazing God and His Word. As a…
Words for Wednesdays Evil is everywhere. Dark alleys. Terrorist countries. Movie Theaters. And though these places seem daunting, evil is also found at the dining room table, the school bus, and the conference table. We are surrounded by evil, but God tells us not to be overcome by it. Instead,…
Words for Wednesdays My blog is called “Reaching Ahead” from the passage in Philippians 3:12-14 where we forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead. But what if our past won’t stay, well… past? What if it affects our present, and as a result, our future? Putting Your…
Words for Wednesdays When Madam Blueberry goes to Stuff Mart, the writers must have been thinking of my love for Super Target. So often, children’s books and movies seem to apply to me more than my kids. It happened again today. Keeping 56 first graders calm during check-out after a…
Words for Wednesdays A poor homeless man. A rich art dealer. They wouldn’t score high on a friendship compatibility test. But in God’s eyes, they were a perfect match. A true story, Same Kind of Different as Meinspired me in ways I hardly expected when I casually picked the book…