I love to cook. I haven’t always loved cleaning the kitchen. Dave and I have an agreement regarding post-dinner time: he takes the kids upstairs for baths and showers, I clean up the kitchen. For the first few years, this was an efficient and logical arrangement, but not a particularly happy one for me –…
“…if the church is Jesus’s beloved bride, his partner and mate in this journey, I have to wonder … who are the people we should be eating with, talking with, and showing kindness to? What is God up to in our neighborhoods, schools, cities, states, countries, and world? To what or whom is God nudging…
I’ve always considered myself a neat freak. As a young child I tried to implement a Saturday morning cleaning schedule for our family, with all of the chores assigned accordingly. No, it didn’t work. In grad school I was regularly teased for my excessive use of 409 and obsessive cleaning of my house. I took…
I was invited to share a devotional during the President’s Briefing at Pepperdine University just before the fall semester began. Here are a few clips from that talk, which still ring true today in our culture of frenetic busyness.
