A million times I’ve beat myself up with the words, “You’re just throwing a pity party. Thousands of people are going through much harder things than you.” Here’s what I’ve discovered: It’s not self-pity to acknowledge that you’re going through a hard time. Yes, it’s true that you can probably find thousands of people going…
I am so excited for my friend Courtney’s new book Still Standing! In Still Standing, Courtney takes us through her journey of betrayal, divorce, brokenness, and restoration. Each chapter is jam-packed with the lessons she learned along the way and how after enduring the greatest betrayal a woman can face, she is still standing. If…
If there is an emotion that is common to each person on planet earth, it is fear. I haven’t yet met a person who didn’t battle fear. Fear paralyzes us with thoughts of “What if….” Images flood our mind with worst case scenarios and horrors that we’ve only ever seen on films. To ease our minds,…
What do you do when life spins out of control? When your stomach is churning and your mind is racing, what is your response? Some people stop eating, some people hide from their emotions in TV binge-ing or sleep. They drown it out in books or loud music. But this does nothing to actually calm…
I must confess that I am deeply concerned about the direction culture is headed all around the world. Even more so, I’m saddened by the division of the church, so much so that has at times left me in tears. 50 years ago the church would have been united around the truth of what God’s…
Would you like to have victory over anxiety in your life? Maybe you think that’s a little out of reach and you can’t imagine a life free from worry, fear, and anxiety. That is God’s desire for us. He wouldn’t have given us the command to “be anxious for nothing” if living a life free…
