Holiness means set apart, to be different. But as I scan the landscape of the church, so often I see sameness with our culture. The divorce rate is the same. People are sleeping together before marriage without so much as a blink of conscience. You see Christians...
Since when did Christianity become crossless? Jesus said, "Anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me" Matt 10:38. He tells his disciples about the mystery of the seed, that unless it falls to the earth and dies, it won't bear fruit....
In my recent co-authored book, The Day I Met Jesus, I retell the story of the woman caught in adultery. At the end of her story, after all the folks who understood their sin slipped away, she is left alone with the Only One who could and should condemn her. Jesus, the...
I'm a Seattle girl, born and bred. I didn't meet Jesus until I was fifteen and the Young Life leader kept telling stories about this man named Jesus who stilled the waves and stooped to help the hurting. I fell in love with Him then. The leader told me I needed to...
So there was this conference I didn't attend called Strange Fire put on by John MacArthur. And in the aftermath of that and several online discussions about it, I felt it necessary to share a bit of my heart, and how the tenor of this conference has grieved me. As...
I often get emails from people asking me how to get published or how I knew I was called to write, or some variation of that question. Or they might ask what the signs are for the calling of writing. Or whether I think they're specifically called to write. Before I...