Discipleship

  • “Grieve is a Love Word”

    My last post was about a decisive question that can help us say no without guilt. That question was, “Who are you willing to disappoint?” I ended the post with a look at Mary and Martha through that clarifying lens and quoted Jon Bloom. Bloom drove the point home with this statement, Mary was more willing to disappoint Martha…

  • Tuning Heartstrings

    “[A] gracious heart is like a musical instrument, which though it be exactly tuned, a small matter brings it out of tune again; yea, hand it aside but a little, and it will need setting again before another lesson can be played upon it.”  John Flavel, Keeping the Heart “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it…

  • My Word of the Year: Adorn

      “That in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.” Titus 2:10 You know how some pants- skinny jeans probably- can make you look 10 pounds heavier? And how, mercifully, there’s also a cute-fit pair that seems to take pounds off? How you fade in the teal blue top, but cobalt blue…