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How to Study the Bible Devotionally
First, congratulations to Sandra Critchfield! You are the winner of the Follow Me book giveaway. I will be in touch soon to get your mailing address. In this week's Free Lance-Star column, I shared how important I think it is for us to study the Bible for ourselves. While Bible study guides and devotional books have their place, they should never...
Follow Me Giveaway
In this week's Free Lance-Star religion column, I share some of what I have learned from an amazing book by David Platt called Follow Me. You may recognize David as the author of the best-selling book Radical. David has been given a voice and a message to wake Christians up from the complacency that is cultural Christianity. In Follow...
Names of God
Hello to those of you visiting from the Free Lance-Star. As promised, here is a list of names of God from the Hebrew Scriptures. I found studying these while asking God to impress their meaning upon my heart invaluable in my quest to really know Him. Several years ago, I did a 31 day series on the names of God. Each post focuses...
The New Radicals
Welcome to those of you who are stopping in from the Free Lance-Star! I am at the Home Educators Association of Virginia conference and did not have a chance to put together the list of promised resources before I left. I will be posting the list when I return on Monday. If you sign up for my blog updates, you will be sure to receive the list...
Orange Rhino Challenge
Welcome to those who are dropping by after reading my column in today's Free Lance-Star! I am so glad that you are here. In today's column I wrote about the damage that is done when we do not control the words that we say or the way that we say them. I was recently introduced to the concept of a no-yelling-at-the-kids-challenge by a friend of...
A Big Announcement!
There are times in our lives where our world view and heart's desires are so completely changed that we know that change can only come from God. It all started two weeks ago when we talked about Katie Davis' amazing story in our Adult Bible Fellowship group on Sunday morning. On the way home, Steve asked what I was going to write this week's...
How do you react to difficult instruction?
Last week's newspaper column dealt with the topic of the "tough stuff" in the Bible. In studying the book of Isaiah, I have come to realize that we are not all that different from the Israelites of centuries past. We like to hear positive messages that make us feel good about ourselves. The most successful Christian books are the ones that...
My response to the Sandy Hook Tragedy
I know that so many of us are still wrestling with difficult questions as a result of the horrible tragedy that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th. Below you can find my response that was originally published in my Saying Grace column for Fredericksburg's Free Lance-Star newspaper. Praying that my humble words can bring...
Faithlife Study Bible – FREE!
I know that I haven't posted here in quite sometime and for that I apologize. I have been busy with my newspaper column and my non-fiction book proposal. I will be back with regular blog posts starting in February. I look forward to connecting with you again! I've missed you! In the meantime, I know that many of you have started new Bible...