In the first two parts of this post series, I shared facts about The Shack book, its author, William P. (Paul) Young, and what I loved about the book and the movie based on the book (the movie largely held true to the book). In this final post, I will be sharing parts from book and […]
Archives for May 2017
“God Won’t Give Us More Than We Can Handle.” True or False?
If you’ve lived on planet earth long enough, you’ve probably heard at least one Christian say to another, “God won’t give us more than we can handle,” in a well-meaning, heart-felt attempt to encourage them. Maybe you’ve even said it to someone else when they were going through a really hard time. I remember people […]
What I Loved about The Shack (Part 2)
For those who know little or nothing about the runaway New York Times bestselling book, The Shack, I shared some facts about its author, William P. (Paul) Young, its story line, and how it got published in “The Shack Facts,” the first post of this three-part series. In this second post of the series, I’m […]
The Difference between Guilt and Shame
I wrote my first book, His Banner Over Me Is Pursuing Love, to help Christians understand their flawless identity in Him so that they can enjoy greater intimacy with Him. Guilt and shame are two strong emotions which commonly hinder the believer’s intimacy with Christ. In today’s excerpt of His Banner over Me Is Pursuing […]
The Shack Facts (Part 1)
If you have never heard of The Shack book or The Shack movie, you might be living in a cave—or a shack (tongue in cheek). When the book was first released in 2007, it stirred up quite a controversy in Christian circles. And, not surprisingly, when the movie based on the book premiered in March […]
Are You Drinking This Poison?
A refusal to forgive someone usually begins with an event where another person either purposely or unknowingly causes us pain. Whether we realize it or not, we make a choice soon after the wounding occurs. We either decide to lock the person up in an imagined debtor’s prison until he or she apologizes and/or we […]
How God Spoke to Me through “Chicken Little”
Did you know that God can speak through anything, even animated children’s cartoons? I continually ask the Lord to keep my eyes and ears peeled for all the ways He wants to reveal Himself to me. I don’t want to miss a thing. (I just heard Aerosmith singing in my head.) Not too long ago, […]
The Triple-Crown Kiss from Our Savior
(Since this post was published in May 2017, Justify became the thirteenth Triple-Crown winner in June 2018. Love, love, love his name!) My husband, Steven, is an avid sports fan. He loves to watch most sports, including all three Thoroughbred horse races here in the United States—the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes (also […]
The Importance of Seizing and Savoring Every Moment
I love to take walks around our peaceful neighborhood as soon as the weather starts cooperating. Well, I guess it’s peaceful if you don’t time your walk right before school starts or lets out (we live close to the junior high school). One of the things I love most about spring-time walks is that new […]
