Hi Next week, Amazon will be coming out with a docu-series that looks at Bill Gothard's teachings.He's the man who influenced the Duggar family (19 Kids and Counting) and hundreds of thousands of others in the fundamentalist and evangelical Christian...

Hello my friend~Mother's Day for many is a crushingly difficult day for one reason or another.If that is you or someone you love, then this post is for you. I pray that those who are struggling will see pieces of hope even when they can't celebrate t...

Hi ~In my email yesterday, I mentioned two ways you can get started with cross referencing to help you in your Bible study. (So if you haven’t read that one yet, you might want to read it before reading this one.)Today I’m talking about the third way...

Hi This is a super quick note to let you know you can listen to a podcast discussion I had with Katherine Spearing of Tears of Eden.Just hop on over here for it.We're discussing Untwisting Scriptures #4, which you can see here.And many thanks to Kath...

Hi again Bob Jones University, my alma mater, has been in the news--the president stepped down because he and the board were at odds.I hadn't paid much attention to it.But someone sent me an article about it that was so full of twisted Scriptures tha...

Hello I've been studying the Word of God for my next book, Untwisting Scriptures #5, "Suffering, Death (to Self), and Life," which I hope will come this year.Every once in a while I come across something surprising. And that's when I know it's time t...

"Judas Ate Too" has been around for a while. Congratulations to you if you've never heard of it.But some of my readers asked me to address it since it tends to pop up around Good Friday and Resurrection Day time every year. I became passionate about...

Hi ~When a friend told me the story about the dream she had about Jesus, I asked her to write a guest blog post for me.If you've been reading at Here's the Joy for long, you know that (even though I'm not charismatic, I feel compelled to disclaimer)...

Hi Sometimes Tim (my husband) and I get to talking about those days in the 1990s when we first started discovering and understanding the Biblical truths that changed our lives and eventually led to my blog, Here's the Joy.One of those times recently...

Maybe you or someone you love has been told, by a callous Christian, words that communicate, "It doesn't matter what happens to you, as long as God is glorified."And then when you see an atheist posting something about God being a narcissist, it secr...