Carrot Ginger Soup
If you are looking for a great soup for fall, here's a favorite at my house. I got this recipe from my friend Lynn Siewert. Carrot-Ginger Soup Ingredients: 2 quarts vegetable stock 6 good [...]
Rest reviews
A number of you are now reading my forth-coming book, REST: LIVING IN SABBATH SIMPLICITY. Don't forget, if you're someone who got a copy of the galleys, that you agreed to read and review the book [...]
A delicate gift
One of the hardest things in life is to go to the funeral of a person younger than you. But that is what I will be doing tomorrow afternoon. Last weekend, my dear friend [...]
Rest resonates with readers
Although it won't be in bookstores until January 1, 2009, people are already talking about "Rest: Living in Sabbath Simplicity," my new book with Zondervan. Just today I had a pastor call me and [...]
Anne Graham Lotz article
My very first article for Christianity Today ran in this month's issue. You can get a print copy at your favorite Christian bookstore, or check it out on-line, where it was posted today. It's on [...]
California
I'm writing this from my hotel lobby in Brea, CA. I spoke this morning in San Clemente, at the Shoreline Church, where not only the women but also two of the pastors had read and [...]
the family that reads together…
Tuesday is the best night, because neither of my kids has practice. No driving, no working in dinner around sports and carpools. So after dinner, Aaron and I lay on the two couches in the [...]
A Hope & A Future
My daughter tends to use her bedroom windows as whiteboards, writing quotes and ideas in Sharpie marker, so she can look out at the world through inspiring words. One verse on her window recently was Jeremiah [...]
Sabbath questions
Last week we gave away free copies of my new book Rest: Living in Sabbath Simplicity. Those of you who responded will be getting something from Zondervan in the next month or so. Speaking of Sabbath, [...]
Free book for bloggers (and reviewers)
Would you like to receive a free book, before the book even releases in stores? If you are willing to post an on-line review, (and you respond quickly) you’ll get a copy of my newest book, “Rest: [...]