Is this a spiritual attack or is this just life?
I started off my final teaching on Ephesians chapter 6 with a quote from the epic movie, “The Usual Suspects” (because I’m old but I am also cool and Bible study can be cool!) that goes like this: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
What if you could actually love your life? Thoughts on contentment from a consistent complainer.
In an age of rampant consumerism, contentment seems not only idealistic, but borderline irrelevant. But according to the Bible that can’t be true for Christians. Is there a way out of our current consumerism trap, the hamster wheel that keeps us shopping and spending and hoarding and lending and still looking at our lives like it’s not enough?
As believers we take forgiveness seriously, as well we should. But what we often struggle with how to practically walk out our forgiveness in our relationships with others.
4 Dangers of Depending on Devotionals
The most worrying trend I’ve noticed as I have ministered among believing women is how many even long-time Christian women have difficulty with studying the Word of God in a direct way for themselves.
Why pray when God does what He wants anyway?
A mom reached out to me on Instagram as she was processing disappointment with her child after something they had prayed over just, well, didn’t happen.
How should Christians respond to the state of our nation?
How are we to respond as believers to everything that is happening in our country? Is there an alternative response that is deeper than “you have to stay positive” and more nuanced than “just trust God?”
Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Don’t work
Want to stop making resolutions that don’t “work”? Resolutions contain the matter of our values and aims, and without something to aim for, well, you are just like a guy playing darts with a blindfold on. That’s true. But, resolutions themselves hold no transformative power. The things that kept us from our goals don’t magically disappear because the date changed. These 4 reasons why our resolutions don’t work will help us make more transformative choices in a new year.
What I told my kids about OWNING a smartphone
In this post I shared with you the parameters and goals we set for our eldest so that he could get a smartphone at age 13. You can read that post here and if you subscribe you will also get a free...
An antidote to financial fear, for real.
Financial fear is a reality for most of us. And for most of us, it’ snot something that comes and goes, but it’s a real, every present battle we need to fight. But what if there was a way to overcome it more effectively? By truly extracting the tranformational value God has for us in His word?
What your lack of Christian community is costing your family and your faith….and how you can fix it
My parents live in a small town in the Karroo, and if you’ve ever met them you will know what pretty much all the people in that town knows: My parents are awesome. And certainly, I’d always assumed...
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
What if we've been getting it wrong all along? I spent most of my professional career living in constant anxiety, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Performance reviews filled me with fear that...
What I told my kids about LGBTQ+
If you are a Christian parent looking to equip your child biblically around the LGBTQ issue, here is help. Want to know how we can equip them with both truth and love, want to know what the Bible really says about this? Want to help your kids (and maybe even yourself!) know how to respond and how NOT to respond? This blog will help you do that!
Is this a spiritual attack or is this just life?
I started off my final teaching on Ephesians chapter 6 with a quote from the epic movie, “The Usual Suspects” (because I’m old but I am also cool and Bible study can be cool!) that goes like this: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
What if you could actually love your life? Thoughts on contentment from a consistent complainer.
In an age of rampant consumerism, contentment seems not only idealistic, but borderline irrelevant. But according to the Bible that can’t be true for Christians. Is there a way out of our current consumerism trap, the hamster wheel that keeps us shopping and spending and hoarding and lending and still looking at our lives like it’s not enough?
As believers we take forgiveness seriously, as well we should. But what we often struggle with how to practically walk out our forgiveness in our relationships with others.
4 Dangers of Depending on Devotionals
The most worrying trend I’ve noticed as I have ministered among believing women is how many even long-time Christian women have difficulty with studying the Word of God in a direct way for themselves.