by admin | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog
If I were to stand before your congregation and ask, “Do you believe in the Great Commission? Do you believe that all Christians are called to ‘make disciples?’” I am certain that majority of the congregation would say, “yes!” It’s a command that most of us in...
by admin | Oct 18, 2014 | Blog
Dear child, I don’t pray for your success. I don’t pray for your success, even though I live in a community that constantly reminds me I should pray for such things. My generation insists that children should someday reach the pinnacle of success by living an...
by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Blog
My Own Thoughts on Love and Marriage As soon as my plane that was LA bound from Chicago landed, I anxiously turned my phone on with excitement to see if my husband had texted me. “Give me a text when you land. I’m not too far away, love. I’m excited hashtag...
by admin | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog
“I don’t know, Tiffiney, I just don’t see it,” I said after Tiffiney, my African American classmate, brought up the subject of racism in America. I went on, “I just feel like racism is a thing of the past, I mean, we elected an African American president, after all. ...
by admin | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog
I walked into the small South African wooden hut with dirt floors to notice a thin woman lying on a bed. “She was cursed by a witch,” one of the locals told me. “She just lays in bed all day long, her bones feel like broken glass; she is in so much pain. Will you...
by admin | Jan 9, 2014 | Blog
Have you ever “had a day”? You know, a lost-your-keys–spilled-coffee-everywhere-got-a-nasty-email-can’t-get-anything-done-my-kids-wont-stop-melting-down kinda day. Are you with me? Some days life throws curve balls at me that come so fast and furious...
