Evening Prayers: For Every Day of the Year

“Deliverance Leads to Healing and Revival” To understand this book of prayers entitled Evening Prayers: For Every Day of the Year by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, I think it’s important to understand their context. The only way to understand their context is to know more about the man who wrote them. The history of this author is fascinating. In 1838, Blumhardt’s …

Book Review: Take this Cup by Bodie & Brock Thoene

I have been reading Bodie Thoene since her release of The Gates of Zion in 1986. She is truly the reason why I fell  deeply in love with Christian Historical fiction. She didn’t disappoint me in this book, either. Take this Cup is book 2 of the Jerusalem Chronicles Series. I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy it as much …

April Fools Day

I don’t care for pranks as a rule. However, I admit to being party to a few. But I can honestly count on one hand the number of high jinks I’ve participated in. The worst prank played on my husband and I was when so-called friends put Vaseline all over our van’s door latches. I had my arms full of …

Why kicking and screaming is not the best idea

On Sunday I was feeling like I wasn’t very good at much of anything I do. Ever feel that way? On this particular day, I felt I wasn’t a very good pastor’s wife. It’s been a difficult year and a half or so of transitions at our church. And we’ve been through a lot of battles and broken hearts. And …