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Tilting Your Head At A Holy God?

Thank you that you have me in the place You want me just now…that even if I got here through wrong choices or indifference or even rebellion, yet You knew my mistakes and sins before I ever existed and You worked them in to Your plan to draw me to Yourself, to mold and bless … Continue reading →

Fear Has Met Its Match, I Reckon

I’ve watched fear creep in. As a thief in the night sneaks his eerie shadow through the back window, so has fear crawled its way through the back door of his innocent mind. My nine-year-old. My sweet boy. Fear is afflicting him. I hear it in his voice. He questions noises upstairs. He visits my … Continue reading →

Throwing The Blessing Out With The Bath Water

A few years back a big ol’ wave of trendy teaching swept through Christian culture. Books and billions were made from the “Name It, Claim It!” Era. The Prosperity Gospel took us all by storm and I will be the first to admit I got my Uggs all tangled in it s net. The wave … Continue reading →

If Your Road Turns Dark

We had been driving over an hour. Sue and I were on our way to Concord, North Carolina for a conference one Friday in July. We didn’t know what to do with ourselves. Two moms away from kids. Left alone in a quiet car, we just might solve the economic crisis or cure world hunger. … Continue reading →

Prayin’ Up Our Babies – A Bully & The Bridge

I was a school bus girl. I rode the bus from my first day in kindergarten until I had my own car. I lived on the very edge of the county line, so it took the bus a solid 25 minutes to get to my high school. As a sophomore, I vividly remember the sick … Continue reading →

Protection No Pistol Can Offer

I grew up in East Tennessee. A little town on the outskirts of Knoxville. My sister, my mom and me. My grandmother lived next door. Mom and Dad had divorced. Papaw died when I was three. Four females. In the back roads of Tennessee. One night I woke to my mother standing beside my bedroom … Continue reading →