One small act of kindness
I’ve been working in campus ministry for eight years now. There have been exciting seasons (especially in the last few years) of leading many...
Anna Jansz
A young woman pleads with the crowd around her as she is led to her execution. She is not begging for her life to...
It can be lonely at church
A few years ago, I hung up the phone after a long day of breaking terrible news to our leaders about the death of...
Christmas in Africa
Christmas in Africa. That wasn’t something this Midwestern girl planned to experience while growing up with regular snow and ice storms each December.
But there...
Patient and willing
I sipped a large latte at my favorite local coffee shop and asked myself what I was getting into. Across the table from me...
A comfortable disobedience
There are a number of behaviors that we easily see as disobedience to Jesus. In fact, more than we might admit, it is easy...
Humility and service
In 1535, Menno Simons, a Catholic priest from Witmarsum, Holland, wrote a blistering attack against Jan van Leiden, a revolutionary Anabaptist leader.
The piece was...
Jesus walks with me
As a young boy, I often saw the snowcapped Sierra Nevada mountains and dreamed of one day hiking the John Muir Trail (JMT).
In the...