God’s Home: In Us

God’s Home: In Us

One of my most favorite passages of Scripture is John 14 because it is where Jesus reveals what His relationship will be (and now is!) with His followers after His death, resurrection, and ascension. He said He would come and make His home with each of us who love Him and follow Him, and not…

Freedom to Choose

Freedom to Choose

One of the best gifts we can give each other is the acknowledgment that each of us is answerable to God first and foremost. Imposing our opinion shuts down a relationship. Listening with an open heart keeps it open. We may disagree with someone’s perspective, opinion, decisions, or beliefs, but when we realize that God…

A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

I am a homeless person, of sorts. Not in the sense that I don’t have a roof over my head or people who love me. I’m homeless in the sense that while I’ve called numerous places on this planet “home,” none are places I go back to as one would go “back home.” By the…

Miserable Comforters

Miserable Comforters

I just finished listening to the book of Job in the New Living Translation. Every few years, I like to read through the Bible in chronological order to retain the big picture view of its storyline and overall message, which is our redemption through Jesus. This year, I’m listening to it instead of reading it,…