2016 has been a hard year for our country. Terrorism has kept us fearful and grieving. The Presidential election has us exhausted and uncertain. And suffering on a personal level continues to keep us on our knees, in…
Integrity is pretty important. No person wants to live without it. But how often do we really stop long enough to question what “integrity” actually is? If you’re anything like me, integrity makes you think about someone who…
I begin my Genesis class with a lesson on misconceptions about the character of God, which helps students really examine what they believe about God and why.
I remember asking students in the first Bible study group I graduated, “What is the gospel?” After two years of investment, all I received were blank stares. Crushing. Now I ask my students to define the gospel at…
I am not getting any younger. I am 35 years old, I have a wife, three children, and an emotionally needy cat. The gray hairs are starting to overpower the brown, which was once a golden blonde. I…
1 Peter 5 says, “So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd…
The original audience for this short essay were small group leaders at Redeemer Community Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to help them facilitate constructive discussions in the days following the election. We hope these words will also resonate with…
I’m not huge into politics because, honestly, the whole notion of debating is quite panic-inducing to me. So as my husband watched the debates this past fall (and I pretended not to pay attention), I couldn’t help but…
It doesn’t matter where you live, what type of school system you are in, or who your kids’ friends are, there is no fool proof way of avoiding middle school meanness. That is not to say the meanness…
