How long does it take you to grow bored of a gift? Recently, a friend and I discussed the inundation of toys that usually swamp a child's life on Christmas Day. She shared an anecdote about a kiddo in her life who received such an overwhelming number of extravagant...

Do you take life so seriously that you forget to laugh? Growing up, there was a portrait in our house simply titled, “Jesus Laughs.” I stared at that portrait often as I did my schoolwork, and it always made me so happy. As a kid, I loved the idea of Jesus laughing. I...

There are many things in this world that can overwhelm us—from crowded places to loud sounds to too much work and long to-do lists, and beyond! Sometimes, even the work of the Lord can overwhelm us, too. We are called to be workers of God’s harvest, and that is no...

Often, I find myself equating the best course of action with the least-scary one. At some point in my life, I decided the scarier the road, the less likely it was to be the right path, the God-ordained path...so the less likely I was to take it. Some of this reasoning...

The holiday season is "officially" upon us! This time of year can look a lot of different ways for a lot of different people. Even within Christian circles, there's often debate about whether Christians "should" celebrate a holiday like Christmas. But whether you are...