I spent a lot of my day recently jumping through bureaucratic hoops. I had calls to make where I listened to a lot of music, forms to fill out online that didn’t work the first time and had to be re-entered, and then I had to take notes and make copies documenting all my progress so that…..
How do we cope with the down times in our lives? Where should we turn when we feel spiritually dry, when nothing in our lives feels productive, and circumstances conspire to discourage us from actions we thought were important?
In short, what can we do when we’re “spiritually” depressed?
It’s in these times that I think the Old Testament…..
Often we forget to take note of how many women led the early evangelism of Christianity. Luke mentions Lydia briefly as one of the first converts in Philippi in Acts 16:14-15, 40. I base this imagining on that account as well as Paul’s letter to the Philippians.
Though my husband and I were originally from Thyatira…..
In celebration of Pentecost, an imagining of Philip, the Evangelist following his story in Acts 6:5-8:40 and 21:8-9.
I was scared too – after they killed Stephen. We understood that some people inevitably resist change. What we hadn’t counted on was their willingness to defend their precious status quo with stones.
You might scoff because…..
Whether we admit it or not, most of us want to believe in heaven as the place we go when we die. Its notion that there we will live “happily ever after” echoes our primal fairy tale mentality.
Because of this, some people doubt the Easter story of Jesus’s…..
Years ago I rented the movie, “The Sixth Sense,” famous for its surprise ending. Unfortunately, while I was in the video store, I had heard people talking about the movie and, about halfway through watching it myself, I realized their comments had clued me in to the twist at…..
I have friends who have dual-citizenship, and therefore, two passports. This means that if they’re traveling in Europe, for instance, they use their European passport because they can pass through the entry points more easily. Then they use their US passport to come home.
We actually all have several forms of…..
A continuation of last week’s post: At the Cross. An imagining of Johanna’s experience of Easter and its aftermath based on Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12, 33-53; and John 20:1-22.
In the days following that first Resurrection Day when she had gone with the Marys to the tomb and…..
A continuation of last week’s post Finding Purpose. An imagining of the crucifixion based on Matthew 27:55; Mark 15:40-41; Luke 23:26-46; and John 19:25-27.
Thank God John had come to tell Jesus’s mother. Under a sky still black with night, the alarm sounded from house to house among the women……
A further imagining based on Matthew 9:18-26/Mark 5:21-43/Luke 8:40-56 and Luke 8:1-3. A continuation of last week’s post New Life.
In the months that followed her healing, Johanna, who had lived twelve years an outcast, now found herself embraced with community. As much as she could, she joined along with the women…..