It’s the grace of life, the cherry on top — ……heirs with you of the grace of life….. (1 Peter 3:7, ESV) Twenty-five years ago today, we stood before God and a hundred and fifty witnesses and made some pretty audacious promises. For fourteen months, we had been in wedding planning mode, thinking through every detail of our special day…

The never stopping, never giving up, unbreakable, always and forever love — So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table, like one of the king’s sons. (2 Sam 9:11, ESV) When Albuquerque police officer Ryan Holets responded to a call at a gas station, he had no idea it would change his life forever. …

A meal with a view — “They beheld God, and ate and drank.” (Exodus 24:11, ESV) They weren’t sure what was trembling more as they ascended the mountain known to quake in his presence. Was it their legs or the ground beneath their feet? If ever there was a suicide mission, this might’ve been it. Israel’s…

Come and dine, the Savior calls — Yesterday was a diamond day. The kind that will sparkle in my memory for years to come. …

You’re invited to a feast! — And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. …

A letter to my son on his high school graduation — Dear Son, I vaguely remember doing the math when you were born in 2003. It occurred to me that what seemed like a million years into the future, way off in 2022, you’d graduate from high school. That seemed as far away as 1985 seemed to Doc Brown in Back to the…

The story of your brand and how you should tell it — Ernest Hemingway once bet a group of friends that he could make them cry from a story with only six words. If he won the bet, each of his friends would have to pay him ten dollars. Hemingway’s six-word story was, “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” …

Mother’s Day for moms on the move — My job as a mom means my secondary office is my car. On days when we have sports commitments, I spend hours and hours shuttling my kids around town. This is nothing new for me, and I know parents all over the world experience the same thing. In fact, it…

Thou shalt remember thy reader — The power of the written word has always fascinated me. Years ago when visiting the British Museum, I geeked out when I saw the Magna Carta, the earliest copy fragments of the Gospel of John, and a napkin with the lyrics of “Love Me Do” scribbled by Paul McCartney. …