The story of Mary and Martha and Lazarus resonates with me. The many messages of that story draw me back to it over and over again: Jesus loves us deeply and intimately. Jesus calls me to rest with Him especially when I have too much to do. He joins me in my heartbreak. He weeps …
Perhaps one of the great crises faced by our generation is isolationism. We live in a world of immediate communication—Facebook, Twitter, text messages, cell phones, Skype. We can speak immediately, 24 hours a day, with almost anyone in the world. Yet, we live in a state of isolation. Even when we do know people “well” …
As I’ve grown older, personally experiencing and witnessing the attacks that Satan launches against Christian families, my greatest struggles and failures are usually directly related to my self-image. Beginning in early childhood, women in our culture are beaten up with lies and misdirection about what makes a woman valuable, what a woman should be or …
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