Having been chased to the edge of a sea by hundreds of armed men that wanted to see them captured, the Israelites of Exodus find themselves in a quandary. Trust God and what He promised to do or fuss, complain, and panic? I’d love to say they trusted God, the Red Sea parted, and on…
It happened on a mid-July afternoon in 1986. Jesus found me on my knees in my small bedroom. I had spent months prior to that time wrestling with eternal questions like: Who am I? What is my purpose in this world? What happens to me after I die? On that beautiful, life-changing day, Jesus intersected…
It was definitely one of the darkest seasons of my life I’d ever walked through… My teen children and I moved to Georgia from West Virginia when I remarried in the Fall of 2003 and we found ourselves starting over. Blending a new family, acclimating to a new area and culture, and mentally deprogramming from…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was a journalist. As a feature story reporter for a small town newspaper, I developed a passion for questions. Questions were a necessary part of my job. Without them, I would not have been able to gain a clear understanding of the person’s story…
The story of the “woman caught in adultery” has been the topic of many a pastor’s sermon over the years. This unnamed woman endured a round of public humiliation that would have tempted most of us to curl up in the fetal position and stay there for days. John 8 opens with Jesus at a…
It had to weigh at least 60 pounds. Just seconds after it hit the ground, a drably dressed pooper-scooper had the honor of shoveling up that steaming pile of elephant dung and removing it from between the circus tents where people were milling around. It was a hot summer day and I had taken my…
