Working with children does not require a knowledge of yesterday’s memes or today’s trends—it requires a vision for tomorrow’s promise.

It is important that we do not conduct a relationship with Jesus as an idea rather than as an actual person.

The sandbox of the local church is a place where you can expect the Holy Spirit to increase your faith and maturity.

In our anti-institutional age that highly values equality, many Christians today are confused about who can perform baptisms. There are biblical and theological, as well as historical, reasons why only ordained ministers should perform baptisms.

God doesn’t intend for us to ask and answer the hardest questions of life by ourselves.

I can’t say seminary is right for every mom any more than seminary is right for every woman or every man. But I do know I have been blessed more than I could have imagined.

Some of our richest hymns have been written by women and have been born out of intense suffering.

It’s God who brings about change in hearts, freeing us to be faithful when few come and helping us avoid pride when many do.

Apathy, resentment, social pressures to have it all together, and a host of other challenges can make it hard for the wife of a pastor to want to attend church.

Sensory overload, bouts with anxiety, and inability to read some social cues can make the neurodivergent believer’s experience at church difficult. But that’s only part of the story.

After restless years in systems where you have to earn your keep, it was so refreshing to come back to the church and be welcomed for reasons other than what I can offer.

While we were in our deepest pain and the most chaotic season of our life—the fear of potentially losing our six-month-old daughter—the church served as our pillar of prayer.