Why God is Inefficient

What do you do when you have a decision to make and God won’t clearly show you what to do and doesn’t seem to understand what a deadline is?Recently I had to decide something relatively important that would affect our family and had some reasonably long term...

Look at Me, Look at Me

This morning I asked God, as I have almost every day for about the last six weeks, to create in me a pure heart. On my way to attend the governor’s prayer breakfast  today I asked God, as I often do, to keep me humble without humiliating me. I asked him to...

Showing Love in Jesus’ Name

What does it really look like to love? I’ve been giving that a lot of thought lately while reading through 1 John and while living life with “the humans,” as my friend calls them. The humans are annoying, hateful and as we called it in high school, two-faced. The...

What I’d Change About My Church

What is church to you? A building? A denomination? Hypocrites? Posers? People who love and care? People who are weak? People who think they are perfect? People who enforce, follow and/or break rules? People who are fake? People who are kind? I am learning now more...

Sprinting to the Cross

“A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.” Mark 15:21I have a lot to do today. Easter is in a few days, we are going to be seeing family, I have homework I...

Why I Don’t Love Jo-Jo

“Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate, knowing it was out of envy the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.” Mark 15:9A woman recently told me I looked like “Jo-Jo.” Jo – Jo. The stunning, half Asian, incredibly talented Joanna...
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