One thing that Moses, Elijah, and Peter all have in common: disappointment.

What they thought would be, never materialized.

It’s one thing we have in common with them, too.

Also, a hope that is greater than even the sum of all our dashed dreams.

So many of my friends and family are going through some difficult teen years. I get it. It can be scary. Big kids=big problems. It does get better.

But in the meantime, let me say what has worked the best, though it feels like the hardest. The knee jerk reaction to stuff is…

Too many of us who claim the Name of Jesus are far more upset by what people are doing while on their way to hell than upset that they are on that road at all.

Just blocked a whole bunch of followers that I don't know or who have no posts, turned on protect posts. I have been stalked in the last two days by porn girls who are reposting my tweets on their site. If you are blocked and shouldn't be, I'm sorry...just protecting myself rn

Yes!

I can smell this picture.

'Because I live, you also will live.' – Jn. 14:19

The epitaph of every earthly king: He lived.
The epitaph of the King of kings: He lives!

Before you tell me how a submissive wife should behave, SHOW me what it looks like in your relationship with the governing authorities in your life.  Peter uses the same word for both. 1 Peter 2:13,14 and 1 Peter 3:1.2

I have the energy of a sloth on benadryl today. But as I tell my piano students, 'I can do hard things. I WILL do hard things.'

It is endlessly comforting to have a God who is both infinitely more wise and more loving than I am. He has plenty of good reasons for everything he does and allows that I cannot know, and therein is my hope and strength.

Thinking of all the ways people evaluate success and happiness. What matters in the end comes down to love. A person who is well-loved and loves well doesn't worry so much about all of the external adornments and public acknowledgements. Gentle, steady love is its own comfort.

When waves of grief come, give them time to surface. Grieve well, then find something to redirect your thoughts once you've given it appropriate vent. They do not go away. They lessen in severity, but like physical scars, some motions can pull and strain even a healing wound.

We consumer-driven Christians are eager to have #God present something to us. In Romans 12:1, Paul urges us to present something to God. What is that something? My entire self! I am to offer my life to God...daily.
It is a holy act. It is a logical, rational and reasonable act.