When “Mother’s Day” Hurts or Doesn’t Fit in Some Tidy, Little Box

Hallmark has a way of taking something sacred and idealizing it, to the point of where even the best mother’s can question their ideologies. Meme’s, hashtags, heart-felt stories of abnormally fabulous moms can make the average-everyday-dishwasher, clothes-cleaner, diaper-changing parent look at their faith or family in distain. And then there is this day….The one where some […]

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Speaking at the Missional Women Retreat, Last Weekend

What a humbling gift to be the Keynote Speaker at the Missional Women Retreat this past weekend. I am continually moved by the solid, Christ-centered hearts of the women at Missional Women. Whether it’s sharing about foster and adoption at a church in Denver, communicating God’s heart through our testimony at a college in Colorado, or driving […]

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Guaranteed Hope and Reports of Miracles Amidst the Flames

In a world of statistics and calculations, reports and diagnosis; science has made its way into every stream or label today. We have integrated mathmatics and probability, intellect and conclusions into virtually every catagory of our belief systems; and that includes Christianity. Yet, what if God still moves in a way that defies odds? What if […]

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When You Feel Invisible

He sat in silence, away from the crowd. Small, tiny, almost completely unannounced. A world’s hustle and bustle around. They missed the humblest born. The crowd moved en mass. Leaving the town from the holy event. Noise, sacrifices, children like a caravan. Yet, a boy wasn’t with them.  Instead, He was found in His Father’s house. […]

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