I remember being a new mom and having naptime to myself. I sat on the couch as my newborn slept in his crib. The floor was covered with toys and blankets. The other side of the couch had a pile of clean laundry that needed to be folded. As I sat there, I tried to muster up enough strength to clean up. I just couldn’t. Instead, I opened my Bible. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew…
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…