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God’s words/my years

In 2005, I heard someone in a small group talk about asking God to give her a word for the new year, a word for something God wanted to teach her or to guide her in some way. It sounded like a good spiritual practice so I asked the Lord to do the same for…

My story is not an autobiography

The title of this blog post has nothing to do with the book I am writing. It has to do with the story of my life. This morning I read a wonderful devotion in New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp. It began: You simply can’t debate it—God’s way is better than your way. His…

Rise and Walk

I came to Christ at the tail end of the Jesus Movement in the 1970s. It was a time of huge social unrest. Sound familiar? And out of that unrest, a revival happened. I’m seeing signs and hearing news of another revival, and my heart longs to witness the move of God as it sweeps…

What a Week I’m Having!

Remember that line from the movie Splash. Eugene Levy’s character has managed to get himself beat up (multiple times) for his silly antics, and as things escalate he screams, “What a week I’m having!” Well, that’s been me. Last Friday, I decided to make a change to my website hosting plan because the one I…

The Chosen Season 2 Finale

From the time I was a young girl, I have loved movies about the peoples and times of the Bible. But those films weren’t always (understatement) true to the Bible itself. I don’t mean in a storytelling way. I’m okay with that. I mean that the writers/producers sometimes twisted the truth of Scripture, and that…

Happy Independence Day, America!

The countdown is on. Make You Feel My Love releases in just 9 days. I’m so excited for it to be available to readers at last. Have you preordered your copy?

Out here in the West, we are broiling. In the Boise area, we’ve had over a week of 100 degrees and above, and the forecast doesn’t promise much of a change. Only a couple of days in the next ten are supposed to fall (barely) below 100. Let’s just say that staying inside and working at my computer with the fan spinning overhead is the ...

In the Beginning . . .

No, my title for this blog post doesn’t refer to the first line of Genesis. I’m talking about beginning a new novel.

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” 
― Beatrix Potter

As Beatrix Potter said (I quote her often on this), there is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. And if a writer is a seat-of-the-pants writer like me, the second line of the quote is every bit as true. I don...

Monday Meditation: unless you are…

A few weeks ago, during a discussion with the Life Group I lead, something one of the women said caused me to share from Acts 15:1.

“Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”” (NASB95)

This is such an important verse. At first, I couldn’t find it because I was looking for it in Galatians and Ephesians. Nope. I had to go “back to left” to find it.

About twenty years ago, I wrote t...

I will never . . .

Back in the early 1990s, when cell phones were becoming more common and they only had enough juice to last for maybe half an hour of use at a time, I said:

"I will never own a cell phone. I already answer the phone at home all day long. Why would I want people to be able to reach me when I'm out?"

I meant it.

But then the safety issue was brought home to me. If something happened to my car on the freeway, for instance, I didn’t want to open my car to a total stranger. Much better to...

Monday Meditation: something better

Recently, on my second time listening to an audio version of the New Testament this year, I arrived at the 11th chapter of Hebrews. This chapter is often thought of as the Hall of Fame of the faithful of God. My Bible titles the chapter “The Triumphs of Faith.”

But it was verses 39-40 that jumped out at me as I listened:

“And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us ...