The Steps to a Great Marriage

The steps to a great marriage. You see a lot of titles like this if you spend any time on social media. Everyone is giving you three steps to this and four steps to that. In fact, the experts tell social media writers that these are the types of headlines that get the most clicks. […]

What’s Your One Thing?

Psalm 27:4-5 ESV One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in […]

By the Salt on My Lashes

I was nearly twelve years old when I felt the current pull, dragging me off my feet and deeper into the ocean. For one breath of a moment, I felt the world sucking me into its center when my dad grabbed my arm and yanked me toward him. It was simple. A moment without comment […]

A Mind Renewed: Fighting the Lies with Truth

In February of this year, a small group of ladies from our church packed suitcases with lightweight clothes and cans of dry shampoo and headed for Cape Town, South Africa. A day and a half later, we bumped our wheeled suitcases down the ramp in a foreign but familiar city. The air was hot and […]

Restored Relationships

Hospitality is really all about other people.  It’s not primarily about the food we serve when guests come to our home.  It is more about our heart for others and the way we allow others to be lavished with grace and accepted and known.  It is about helping them feel refreshed after having been with […]

Hospitality of a King

Hospitality didn’t begin with us.  It didn’t begin with Southern Living, or really anything “southern.” It didn’t begin with a table.  It didn’t begin with sweet tea. It began with God.  Everything good originated with God.   Hospitality began with God in the garden.  He created man, offered them the most lavish food and accommodations.  He […]