Mark 1:15 "Turn away from sin and believe the good news." As Christians, we celebrate Jesus' resurrection each Sunday. This weekly observation punctuates our...

The problem of praying in relationship with God rather than just speaking a list of requests in prayer, mentioned in my previous post, always seems to come d...

Luke 11:1 "Lord, teach us to pray...." Why did the disciples, who grew up in a culture where they'd surely learned about and practiced prayer, ask Jesus to ...

"I should pray more." So many Christians live their lives with the sense that if only they could find time and discipline to pray more, it would solve their ...

The Christian faith is all about love. It's been called the "world's great love religion." The most basic principle of Christian teaching is that the Incarna...

I stumbled upon spiritual direction by accident. Having been introduced to the language of evangelical Christianity in college, I was familiar with the idea ...

Luke 22:19 "Do this in remembrance of me..." "Lent isn't a ritual. It is time given to think seriously about who Jesus is for us, to renew our faith from the...

Psalm 6:2 "Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony." When I look around at my community and read articles about ou...

1 Cor. 13:12 "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been full...

"Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God..." (Gal 4:9) So often Christians talk about knowing God and being in relationshi...

1 John 3:1-2 "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God.! And that is what we are! The reason that the worl...

My family did not observe Advent when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. I stumbled upon this amazing celebration as a young parent attending the church we...

What is the liturgical year? ​ The liturgical year is different from the calendar year. The calendar year is a sequence of dates, a way to talk about histori...

Most people have probably never heard these two words, "soul care," placed together. When and if we consider what self care means in the midst of our daily l...