Stewardship Spotlight: The Ten-Minute Look at Where Your Money Actually Goes
Tuesday again. This is where we land every Tuesday, with one small, practical way to steward what you have been given a little better this week. This Week’s Tip Set a timer for ten minutes and open your most recent bank or card statement. Read down…
The Hard Questions: Why Does the Bible Tell Us Both to Answer a Fool and Not to?
This is where we land every Sunday, after This Week’s Verse. Each week we pick one verse or question that seems hard, contradictory, or uncomfortable, and I give the best answer I can. Sometimes the answer will settle the matter. Sometimes some…
Learning to Express the Nature of God Already in You
He wanted to love his difficult uncle the way the sermons described it, instantly, generously, without the friction he actually felt every time the man opened his mouth at a family gathering. He tried the shortcut more than once, forcing warm feelings…
Stewardship Spotlight: The One-Drawer Rule for Small Clutter
Tuesday again, one small, practical way to steward what you have been given a little better this week, simple enough to actually finish, useful enough to notice the difference by Friday. This Week’s Tip Pick exactly one drawer in your home, the…
Gracious and Honest at the Same Time
She was refilling her coffee in the break room when a coworker asked, almost offhandedly, how she could still believe in God given everything going on in the world lately. The question caught her off guard, not because she had never been asked something…
Teaching Yourself to Receive a Compliment Without Deflecting It
She baked a cake for her daughter’s birthday that genuinely turned out beautifully, and when a guest complimented it sincerely, she immediately pointed out the slightly uneven frosting on one side, the layer that had cracked a little before she…
You Do Not Owe the Internet Your Opinion on Everything
She sat with her phone open to a comment field for almost ten minutes one evening, typing and deleting the same three sentences about a trending controversy she had only read two articles on, feeling a strange, specific pressure building the longer she…
A Seat at the Table: Her Brother Needs Money Again
Every week, we open a real, honest tension from someone’s actual life, a composite drawn from the kinds of situations many of us quietly carry. We ask you to sit with it before we ever offer our own thoughts. No resolution today. Just the dilemma,…
What to Do When You Realize You Taught It Wrong
She found the old teaching notes in a box while cleaning out a closet, a Bible study she had led with real conviction eight years earlier, and read through her own confident handwriting with a growing discomfort she had not expected. She had built an…
What to Do When the Apology Never Comes
He kept the conversation ready in his head for almost two years, a version of events his brother would eventually have to agree with once he finally admitted what he had done. He rehearsed it in the car, in the shower, during long stretches of ordinary…