Seizing Your God-Given Writing Potential

Sometimes I fear that my personal lack of discipline will ruin my kids’ futures. I look at them and see these bundles, packed with potential to an unfathomable degree. They overflow with it! The horizon stretches in sunset hues while God works His wonders in and through their lives, employing each gift He has given them. [...]

Unless the Lord Builds Your Writing House

There have been some great posts recently about the difficulty of this writing journey we’re on together. If you haven’t read The Lonely Writer and When You Feel Like You’ve Been Left Behind, you should go do that now. Both of those posts really resonated with me because it seems like the disappointments on this [...]

When the Bomb Counts Down to Zero: Writing Honest Through the Pain

Guest Article by Shelly Beach and giveaway Over the past few weeks, a friend and I have been plowing our way through all six seasons of the television series Lost. If you’re not familiar with the show, it rose to the forefront American pop culture from 2004 to 2010, gaining critical acclaim and popular success. [...]

Walking on Water With Jesus

The story of Peter walking on water has been speaking volumes to me lately. I heard a teaching on it about a month ago and it sparked a new fascination in me. It’s one of those stories I’ve heard countless times since childhood, so it amazes me that God will speak something fresh and new [...]

The Power Of Small

Sometimes small is a better fit than BIG. Years ago, when my daughter Elisabeth was little, I was cleaning out a car I was trading in. As I checked under the driver’s seat for any leftover treasure, I noticed a music tape nestled deep underneath. I got on my knees and started reaching for the [...]

Rest for the Weary

Apparently, God is trying to tell me something. He keeps pummeling me with articles, conversations, and scriptures with the same theme:  rest. God and I have had this conversation plenty of times, but there’s something different about it this time around. I opened my Jesus Calling devotional book the other morning, and the first sentence read, “You [...]

Waiting in Expectation

“In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.” Psalm 5:3 Sometimes, it’s hard to let myself expect something from God. To let my heart really hope for answered prayers. Waiting in expectation can feel a bit like jumping off the edge of [...]

Are You Over the Edge?

The Gift of Pain

Whenever I get a persistent ache or pain, I go to my doctor. When I tell him where I hurt, he diagnoses what’s going on and recommends a course of action. My pain revealed that there was trouble going on in my body—it was my signal to get some help. In that sense it was [...]

Stay on the Path and You Won’t Get Lost

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