It’s that time of the year again—graduation season. This is such a huge rite of passage into the beginning stages of adulthood. I’ve received several announcements by mail from friends and family who have finished their grade school career; inviting…
I had been thinking a lot lately about gentleness and its association with godliness when I stumbled upon this article by Mark Meynell. It’s funny how God gives you wisdom in batches. Meynell supplies a handy amount of Scripture on…
Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol. 3, Sermon VIII, The Dumb Singing Goldsmiths make exquisite forms from precious metals; they fashion the bracelet and the ring from gold:–God maketh his precious things out of base material; and from the black pebbles of the defiling…
This is a picture of my beloved, Ma Lady. She is a Gaggia Achille lever espresso machine (Insert Tim-the-tool-man grunting). Every morning I long to see her face and flip on her switch. I know her intimately: the noise she…
Instead of my regular Reading Reflection, I have posted my daughter’s 6th grade Social Studies Fair Report. You may be wondering what the history of coffee has to do with the gospel interrupting the ordinary. Stay tuned for my next…
What do goats and coffee have in common? Well as the folktale goes, an Ethiopian named Kaldi did not understand why his goats were playing and dancing so joyously one day, paying him no mind. As it turned out, they had…
Women are very good doers. We write lists, multi-task, and get things done. God created women to be helpers and has equipped us with much strength to do so. However, today I want to propose that maybe our best gifts…
The Gospel Commission, by Michael Horton (Baker Books, 2011) I am only fifty pages into Horton’s new, new book and have found many gems. This section summarizes something I’m passionate about: We are God’s Analogy, created in his image to…
Last Friday, I went out to dinner with my mom, sister, sister-in-law, and friend Cory. We were celebrating the spring birthdays of my sisters and Cory. As we were chatting it up, a lady was soliciting diners to buy roses from…
I like fun words. I love learning new words or rediscovering old ones to use in my vocabulary. So every Wednesday I will be posting a new word of the week, along with its definition. I challenge you to use…
