This week I'm busy with meetings, Christmas shopping and baking, general holiday craziness. So when our friend Timothy Fall offered to do a guest column inspired by a silly conversation, I thought--why not? I don't [...]
One of the best ways to imitate Christ is to do what he did at that first Christmas: simply show up. The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. Or as Eugene Peterson's apt metaphor [...]
The word Advent means "coming." In these busy weeks preceding Christmas, I want to focus not just on buying gifts, but on receiving the gift that has come my way: God's grace, made visible in [...]
This year's shopping season may have started before the turkey leftovers fully cooled, but we have almost a week before Advent officially begins this Sunday. Rather than get caught up in the frenzy, take a [...]
It is time to redecorate. To revise, edit, streamline. We're planning some changes--nothing major, don't worry--here on my website. One question to help me as I renovate: when you think of this blog, do you [...]
Last week, on Free Book Friday, I asked some questions: "What barriers get in the way of knowing you’re deeply loved? What keeps you from experiencing the love of Jesus in a personal and profound [...]
At the end of a long week, I have had enough of words on screens, of words with child and spouse, trying to understand and be understood. I'm ready for fewer words. Some creatives turn [...]
It's November. The holidays are coming we tell each other, sometimes with a wild, fearful look in our eyes. But think about that word—holidays. Holy days. Its etymology is far removed from its current stress-inducing [...]
As the early morning light filters through the trees in my back yard, the morning glories along the deck railing lift their faces. I sit, open Bible and journal before me. The birds twitter a [...]
If you speak out against an anti-bullying program, does that make you a bully? If you do it in the name of "Christian" values, what does that make you? A few weeks before I started [...]