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Kind Words from Amy Carroll and Lynn Cowell
“In Can I Borrow a Cup of Hope? Amy Lively achieves two of my favorite things: engaging teaching and deep Bible study. This thoroughly researched study of 1 Peter weaves the scriptural threads of Peter’s story together in ways that will challenge the mature Bible...
Fruit Requires Fertilizer
Having a 💩 week? Here’s hope. Jesus told a parable in Luke 13 about a fruit tree with no fruit. The owner told his gardener to cut it down, it’s wasting space, but the gardener asked to give it one more chance. “Let me dig around it and put some manure on it and see...
Why Thoughts Aren’t Prayers
According to my car, the outside temperature was 103 degrees. But inside the car, where a glitch caused the air conditioning to intermittently stop working, it felt like the surface of the sun. My GPS showed a solid red line of traffic on the parched Florida highway...
Kind Words from Ministry Leaders
How we met... It's pure gold when words of endorsement come from women doing the real work of ministry, with boots on the ground and arms around their women. They know what it's like when someone opens their brand new Bible for the very first time. They have extra...
A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor
In my continual quest to find an exception clause or asterisk to Christ’s Second Greatest Command, I have a new excuse I’m sure the Lord has never heard before: “My neighborhood is a ghost town.” Literally. I live on a guest ranch in Colorado where the cabins are...
Autumn Outreach
My daughter used to get on my last nerve by the last day of summer. I think this phenomena is actually God’s kindness to mothers, easing the pain of separation with the joy of independence (hers and mine!). We both looked forward to going back to school. But then I...