How to have hope again…. The darkness often seems too dark. In the middle of the winter months, especially here in the hills of Appalachia, my heart sometimes aches with the darkness all around. The nights have been especially cold as well, and for someone who battles seasonal depression each year it is hard to have hope. Have you ever felt like hope was a joke? Me too. But, you and I are not alone. Hope is not a joke…
Why Do We Even Study the Bible? Maybe you’ve been a Christian for just a short amount of time. Maybe you have been walking with God for most of your life, like me. There comes a point in time when we look at our Bibles and we think, “What is the point?” We know we should read it. The preacher and teachers at church tell us to read our Bibles. We study it. Maybe we’ve taken Bible study classes or…
Bible Study on Moses One year ago I released my very first traditionally published book, I Didn’t Sign Up for This. The past year I’ve walked through the last chapter of this book. The last chapter is called “Stepping Into the Unknown Future.” Did you know I wrote that last chapter at my mom’s house? We were living with my parents at the time because we had just been told we had to leave the mission field. All of our…
What If I Don’t Like Reading My Bible? Over the years that I’ve been a Christian (which is about 30 years!) I’ve discovered something: I don’t always like to read my Bible. This might seem shocking! I write a lot about Bible reading and I do a lot of Bible reading, but sometimes I don’t like reading my Bible. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with life to read my Bible. The to-do list seems unending, and I get nothing done each…