Living Real

Awhile back, I asked God to show me what I needed to drop, what changes I need to make. Don’t you know, He’s so faithful to do that! I’m not the only person doing that these days. Seems that God is moving in His people to have them evaluate what they’re doing and get fully [...]

My husband and I were gone when Joey, the UPS driver, dropped off packages tonight. (Gotta love living in a small town where you even know the UPS guy) When we arrived home, I looked at the package on top, noting that it looked like a book and wondering if I had another one coming [...]

An excellent post today by Perry Noble tells us how to pray for our pastors. I encourage everyone to read it and pay heed. In a nutshell, and without the explanations, the list is simple. Pray for your pastor’s: Walk with God Integrity Marriage Sanity Health I encourage you to go and read the entire [...]

Jack and I are so excited! We’re parents again! Okay, not truly parents, but sponsors. Together with our friend Kristina Birkhead, we are now sponsoring four-year-old Judine Pierre. Isn’t she just the most beautiful little girl? She was born on July 2, 2005 and lives with her mother who is sometimes a seller in the [...]

So many people mock the use of social media as self-indulgent, saying that it feeds an inner need for recognition. Okay. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn’t. However, just like the medium of movies, radio, television, and the Internet, it has its potential for good along with the bad. Three times just this past week [...]

Not long ago, I shared how our student ministry, The ConneXion, was told that we couldn't continue to minister to the homeless where we had been. I thought that was a bad thing.  Now I can tell you that indeed, God was up to something. I love it — okay, not at first — when [...]

It has been a couple weeks since the Innovate Conference in Granger, Indiana that I went to. Last year when I went was such a time of revelation I can't begin to describe (okay, maybe I will one day) and this year was different.  This year, I knew my purpose going in. I knew better [...]

I've been overloaded. No one's fault but mine. My recently passed schedule (most of which was added to my "normal" schedule): September 13th – LiveLove in Knoxville – met & served homeless guests. (BLOG POST COMING!) September 14th – 18th – Regular "normal" work – interrupted by an email saying I'd won a free registration [...]

Back in February of 2008, our staff and leadership went through a program to better learn our giftings from God. It was not exhaustive, but I have to say that this was one spiritual gifts test that I wasn't able to "see" the "right" answers to manipulate my way into what I thought was what [...]

Shawn Wood has done it again. Through his weaving of true-to-life stories with biblical truth, Shawn again points us to Christ as the One to  worship and adore and the truths that He taught as principles to be so finely integrated into our own lives that they become like oxygen to our lungs. Beginning with [...]

You've seen people doing routines on the balance beam? You know, that piece of wood, about four feet in the air, four inches wide, that they will walk on, turn flips on and jump up then land on again? Sometimes they don't land on it, and fall off.  That's how I've felt this week. I've [...]

As I write this, I am 48 years old. I am an adult. A mother. A grandmother. A wife. A businesswoman. An employee. And I am a wounded child.  I shared something really important with my mother the other day. Something I really wanted to see excitement in her face about. Something I really wanted [...]