

Mary: Responding to God in Faith
“ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” ...


Healing from Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual abuse can be a difficult thing to define because, in a sense, all abuse has a spiritual aspect to it. For the purposes of this...


Render to Caesar: Remembering the Imago Dei
So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up...


Learning to Lament
One of the most truly beautiful things about Scripture is what theologians calls its sufficiency. This means that the Word gives us...


Weightiness
Glory is one of my favorite words in the whole Bible. This is partially because I love the sound of the Hebrew and Greek words that...


A Story of Redemption: Ruth
Adapted from Sermon from Mountain View Christian Church on May 15, 2016 You know what I find perhaps most interesting about the story of...


A Story of Redemption: Tamar
Adaptation from my April 26, 2016 Sermon on Tamar, Mountain View Christian Church It is obvious that the story of Tamar is not a...


Black Crayons
I held back tears as woman after woman asked me for a black crayon. Others patiently waited for black crayons to become available after I...


The Border
I kept my eyes forward, looking at no one. I put one foot in front of the other, measuring my speed as not to appear in too much of a...


The Day I Gave Up To Do Lists
I am an organizer at heart. Nothing excited me more as a child than when the time came for back to school shopping. The crisp notebooks,...