Aligning Our Mind with Reality Produces Peace
I spend much of my working hours sorting fact from fiction. It’s not necessarily because someone is lying to me. More often, there are simply facts my clients don’t know—pieces of the story that surface in discovery. My job is to help my client see clearly and make solid decisions based on truth. We have […]
The Widow’s Mite: Why She Gave More
Inspired by a sermon by Pastor Terry Moore of Nags Head Church “But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” (2 Corinthians 9:6) When we talk about having God’s best, we’re not talking about anything money can buy. We’re talking about the […]
The Root of Your Anxiety May Be Very Simple
Recently, I had the mother of all Mondays. By 11:00 a.m., I was reeling from everything that had happened in the first three hours of my workday. I felt adrift in the storm, unable to get my bearings. And right there, in the middle of it, I had a choice to make. I could affirm […]
What Brain Chemistry Reveals About Worship
I’ve spent enough years logging miles to know the feeling every runner chases. Somewhere around mile three or four, something shifts. The heaviness lifts, the mind clears, and for a little while, everything feels right. Runners have a name for it: the runner’s high. It’s chemical. Exercise floods the brain with dopamine, endorphins, serotonin, and […]
Why I Was Afraid of the Second Coming of Christ
For a long time, the return of Christ didn’t stir excitement in me. In fact, at one time, it produced dread. Before I was born again, the idea of Jesus splitting the sky was terrifying. I had been taught the difference between the Great White Throne Judgment and the Judgment Seat of Christ, and I […]
How I Let Good Things Steal My Peace!
The good things God gives us, indeed the very best of earthly blessings, can awaken us at night and produce racing thoughts. They can cause us to become anxious at the thought of losing them. This is true even for someone who genuinely loves the Lord. Let me give you a recent example. I was […]
When Does Love Become Unconditional?
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 A recent sermon I heard by Nathaniel, the lead pastor at Nags Head Church, challenged me to really consider whether I am truly practicing unconditional love. I like to think I do, but I’m […]
Jesus Values Each Person
“Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with […]
Washed Clean: What 48 Miles Taught Me About Forgiveness
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) As my husband and I have done for the past several years, we showed up at our local high school track Friday afternoon to get set up for the 4x4x48 […]
Are You Still Waiting to Be Chosen or Do You Know You’re Already Loved?
There’s an exhaustion that comes from waiting to be completely loved. You show up, you give, you adjust your needs into whatever actions might finally earn the response you’re after, and yet—that pure and enduring love always seems just out of reach. It can crush us—or worse—make us apathetic. Apathy is one of the greatest […]