How God Restored a Wounded Heart

Have you ever found your stomach in a knot because people close to you have judged you? Have you been in devastating circumstances, only to find friends and family and church piling judgment and condemnation onto your pain?
Job was in that place. Satan devastated Job’s circumstances and he lost everything except his wife. [...]

More Reasons It Matters (more in the fight against abuse…)

Today in psych class the prof mentioned in passing that childhood depression often does not manifest like it does in adults with feelings of sadness, crying, etc.  In children, depression often is expressed as aggression.  My heart fell to my toes.  You see, I’m dealing with a precious 5-year-old daughter who is as sunny and [...]

The Devastation of Desolation

There’s a powerful little word in the Bible I’ve never heard a single sermon about. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a preacher mention this word in any context, even in passing. Yet, it is cataclysmically powerful. That word is “desolate.” What a barren and painful picture is painted by those eight little [...]