My goal for 2025 was to read 30 books, and I barely made that goal…just hours to spare on New Years Eve, I finished the last one! Here’s a list of what I read, with some short reviews. Fiction All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I actually can’t believe that this was…

I recently read most of Elyse Fitzpatricks’s “Idols of the Heart” and chapters 4 & 5 of Paul Tripp’s “Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands.” Both books spend time talking about the heart and our idolatry issue. The root of all of our sin is this: we were created to worship, but we so often place…

Sometimes, I wake up on Sunday morning totally discouraged and disheartened. I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to go to church. I just want to pull the covers over my head and sleep the day away. Sure, this happens other days of the week, but it can be especially bad on Sundays….

My husband and I were long-distance for ten months before we got married. Ten long, hard months of being apart. Being married has been sweet, especially after the distance.                 In reflecting on those months, I stopped to ponder what our long distance relationship should have taught me about the gospel. I say “should have”…

Dear Faith Community Church, Church is not just a building. Church is not a social club. Church is a community, centered around Christ. You, Faith Community – leaders and members alike – have been for me a family deeper than blood. For 24 years you have taught me the truth, trained me for ministry, and…

My custom at the end of the year is to take some time to reflect on the past year, thinking through both the joys and the challenges and looking to see God’s faithfulness, what he has taught me, and where I should try to continue to grow in the new year. This year, as I…

I have so much to be thankful for this year. First (and foremost), my salvation. The grace of God has been poured out into my life. My understanding of the gospel and of what took place at salvation has grown and deepened this year through reading books and having conversations with my (now) fiance. I…

I am in a season of life where I am preparing and teaching Bible lessons for kids almost every week. In the process, I have to take the passage or story and tell it in a way that kids can understand, drawing out truth about God clearly and helping the kids to see the main…

“What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written:                 None is righteous no not one;                                 no one understands;                                 no one seeks for God.                 All have turned aside; together they have…

Churches are not required to be ADA compliant.[1] This may surprise you. It should shock and anger you.                 It was determined that it posed to great a burden on religious institutions to provide accessible spaces. It was a “needless injury to religious exercise.” Amy Kenny, a disability advocate, says that this sends a clear…