Tools can be important when you have a job to do, but they can also be a hindrance. I remember (vaguely) studying about the Industrial Revolution in school. In the late 1700’s, manufacturing was done in homes, by hand. Generations of families passed down the secrets of their trade, and they made their living by …
Spiritual Lawn Maintenance
I’ve been thinking a lot about weeds and overgrown plants lately. Mostly because with all the rain we’ve had this summer, it seems like everything in our yard is on steroids! Yardwork is not our favorite thing to do; it’s a necessity when owning a house but we are not the kind of people who …
Open Eyes
Last week I was struggling to create an E-pub document that would be acceptable to a publishing company. I would upload my file, and wait while it went through a verification process, only to be rewarded with a full screen of document errors. This happened several times. The frustrating part was not that my document …
What do you do when life isn’t working?
Have you ever come to a place in your life where everything you try seems to fail? Where the things that used to work for you aren’t producing the results you desire? Those who know my husband know he is an avid golfer. He loves to play golf, talk about golf, think about golf. He …
12 Faithful Men: Portraits of Courageous Endurance in Pastoral Ministry (Book Review)
This book contains twelve short chapters, each highlighting a different man, and written specifically to encourage pastors; however, any believer who is actively living out their faith would benefit by reading about these incredible men of God. Most of them were familiar names; men like Jonathan Edwards, John Bunyan, John Calvin, and Charles Spurgeon, but …
The Way Of The Word 