Welcome to our original blog! As of 2022, our current blog, Words of Grace, is hosted on Substack. We hope you are encouraged by our posts from 2017-2021.
Beauty in the Mess
You know the saying, "it's going to get worse before it gets better"? I usually thought of that phrase growing up when my little sister and I would clean our room. It always seemed to look more like a tornado had gone through it in the midst of our cleaning, but the...
Frederick Douglass and Singing Through Tears
You may be surprised to hear that the single most frequent command in the Bible can be summed up in the word, “sing!”. Upwards of 250 times in the Scripture, someone is declaring to God’s people that they ought to praise the Lord, an expression of worship often...
God’s response to the 10,000 ways I justify my sin
So it turns out that as a Christian I still struggle with sin. Or to put it another way, I still sin. Unfortunately, this will continue as long as I am in this mortal body. But as one pastor has famously said, “as Christians we will not be sinless, but we should sin...