I have been leading a Bible Study on the Book of Acts at Heart of the Shepherd every Sunday morning for several weeks now. It has been about 4 weeks since we read Chapter 12. Today I read it with my daughter and suddenly I discovered something I had not noticed only a few weeks …
Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Messy Mommy Ministry- A Call to Action (Or Inaction?)
The plan was to have a good friend come over for dinner on Easter Sunday. I told her 5 o’clock because we would be getting home from church at around noon and I wanted plenty of time to get my house clean before she arrived. I think I’ve let on a few times that I …
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Feeling Phony
I think about Peter a lot. I would like to say we are a lot alike- in his pre-rock-of-the-church stage- but even then I feel like I am handing myself too nice a compliment. Peter had a courageous mouth. Or maybe Peter suffered with Chronic Foot-In-Mouth Syndrome. I can relate to that. It’s why I …
Getting Re-Sensitized
We live in a graphic society. Our movies have become more gory, more horrifying, and more disturbing. Hollywood doesn’t hold much back. We are drawn to the detail and the emotion that it evokes. If a wound would draw blood, we do not want it to be left to the imagination; we want to see …
Stinky Feet
After bearing the weight of seven children, my mother’s legs and feet were laced with purple varicose veins. I remember as a child admiring my mom’s legs and thinking they were pretty and this was not by recognizing the symbolism in those veins that bore the sacrifice of my life. They were the legs of …