On a quiet Christmas day (our kiddos were due later in the week), I wanted to do something different from usual. So I sat by the fire and read through and organized absolutely ALL my blog post ideas. When you've been blogging for 13 years, as I have,...

If you were to search my website for the word “capacity,” you’d see that I refer to it quite a few times.In fact, through recent years I’ve thought about it often. The fact is, lack of capacity has been a big problem for me.Today I'm sharing one way...

It isn't just that I didn't want to read about Jesus. I didn't want to read a Scripture that was only about Jesus.It wasn't that I didn't want to read the gospels. I knew, of course, that the gospels were about Jesus.No, I was in the psalms, and . ....

Hello my friend~Perhaps it isn't really the best thing to center our lives around the gospel. Maybe that thinking can be challenged just a bit. Maybe it will help bring some greater clarity into our lives. And not just clarity, but a greater sense of...

Is there any article you can point me to about “don’t be a stumbling block” and how that’s weaponized?That’s a note I received through my Facebook Untwisting Scriptures page, from Amanda Sanchez, until recently a third-generation member of the United...

I’ve had a few epiphanies in my lifetime, and all of them have been important. But this one, this is the biggie.It happened in November of 2004, eighteen years ago this month. I was scrubbing the kitchen floor. While I scrubbed, I listened to some Bi...

View this email as a blog post here.It is a negative label, and one of accusation. Always.I’ve been pondering this term for years, but recently a book coaching client of mine used the term in reference to himself, raising the subject anew for me.The...