When my husband and I were beginning our family, we wanted to give our offspring names of significance. A son’s name was no problem: he would be named Reed Harrison Odell after…
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When I taught teenage girls small group a few years back, I asked them to imagine getting the news that Mary received when she was visited by the angel. For…
Utter the word “expectations” and my soul withers just a bit. The words that rush to my mind are words like shame, guilt, disappointment, failure. Ugh. I’m clearly not the…
I can’t tell you how many times in decades of Bible study I have read the account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead: “When [Jesus] had said these things,…
I recently went to the wedding of a young friend I’ve known since she was a skinny eight-year-old. She is now 27. The wedding was beautiful in both its simplicity…
