Some are walking through a hard December...There are some years when December does not arrive with the feeling we hoped it would. The lights go up, the music starts, the calendar fills, and somehow th...  Read More

Christmas Isn’t Pagan.And Yes… It Really Is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.Every December, like clockwork, the same TikToks, reels, and confidently delivered “I did my own research” posts start a...  Read More

This Thanksgiving God has me in a place of reflection that feels heavier and more sacred than usual.I am grateful for the blessings He has poured into my life, family, friends, church, a new granddaug...  Read More

There is something incredible about meeting with God out here. The world slows down. The noise finally fades. And honestly, it does feel spiritual to sit in the middle of creation with nothing standin...  Read More

TO EVERYONE GOING INTO THE WOODSTo every hunter stepping into the woods this week, whether it is before the world wakes up, or in the quiet of an afternoon, or in that sacred hour when the sun sinks b...  Read More

Dear Veterans,I don’t know what it’s like. I don’t know what it’s like to be told to go when every part of you wants to stay. To board a plane or a ship with uncertainty in your gut, a lump in your th...  Read More

LOOK UPIt’s easy to forget how much of life happens on a horizontal plane.We wake up and scroll through a world of opinions, arguments, filters, and comparisons. We measure ourselves against headlines...  Read More

The things we crave are wonderful blindfoldsCravings promise comfort. They feel like relief, like a warm room in a cold world. Approval, success, control, numbing, screens, secret habits, the rush of ...  Read More

The God Who Carves Us FreeMichelangelo once said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”I’ve always loved that.That's exactly how God sees us.He sees who He created us to be,...  Read More

Speak LifeProverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”That’s not a small thing. That’s everything.Most of us don’t even realize how often we are the ones speaking darkness int...  Read More

One day, I will be gone, and if I am known for anything, may it be that I was courageous with my faith.I don’t want to live safe.I don’t want to live small.I don’t want to get to the end and realize I...  Read More

Jesus Meets Us in the DirtToday I met a young woman who told me she was 527 days sober... and then she relapsed. You could see the weight on her shoulders. The shame. The “I should’ve known better.” T...  Read More