
🎉 Stepping Into 2026—How to Face the Giants in Your New Year 🎉 So… it’s the start of a brand new year, and if you’re like me, you can feel both the hope and the heaviness pressing in as the calendar turns. I don’t know about you, but as I look ahead to 2026, I’m staring […]

🎬 When Rotten Tomatoes Gets It Wrong… So there I was, scrolling through Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the “100 greatest Christmas movies of all time,” expecting Miracle on 34th Street, It’s a Wonderful Life, maybe even Elf. And they were there. But then I saw it. Sitting smugly at number four—top five, folks!—was a film called Tangerine. Never heard of […]

There’s something about the holidays that no card, carol, or Christmas cookie can fix. That’s the deep ache of loss, disappointment, or longing that so many of us feel when the world around us sparkles and we’re just struggling to breathe. It’s the empty chair at the table, the relationship that’s fractured, the prayers that seem […]

🌟 The Christmas That Changed Everything: How You Can Change the World through Giving It was a picture-perfect Christmas scene… I sat in our living room, surrounded by shimmering decorations and the gentle glow of twinkling lights, gazing at a tree nearly buried beneath a bounty of gifts. The presents spilled out from under its […]

🦃Thanksgiving… then Black Friday… then Advent? 🎄 Aghhhhh! We all know the drill—Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and before you’ve polished off the last bite of pie, you’ll be facing the biggest shopping day of the year. No pressure, right? But while the world is speeding up into a frenzied dash of deals, decorations, and to-do lists, this Sunday quietly ushers […]

💔If you’re anything like me, you care deeply about raising kids who not only know Jesus but see and serve the hurting world around them—just like He did. But let’s be honest, when we look around, the brokenness in our culture can feel overwhelming. There are children and adults alike hurting everywhere—trafficked, bullied, abandoned, addicted, abused, […]

You guys… one question is being debated all over college campuses, in our churches, in the world of podcasting, and, let’s be honest, at our own dinner tables. That question is… Is the modern nation of Israel—the one run by Benjamin Netanyahu today—really the same nation God promised to Abraham in Genesis 12? And that question leads […]

🌍 Why Israel Matters: What Every Christian Parent Needs to Know In a world overflowing with breaking news, viral outrage, and shifting tides in the Middle East, it’s tempting as parents—and as believers—to tune out. After all, what do global headlines have to do with our day-to-day parenting choices or the faith shaping our children? But what […]

💭 Where My Thoughts Have Been Lately Have you ever felt like the world around us isn’t just getting harder to navigate—it’s starting to feel downright chaotic? Maybe you sense there’s more at play than politics or headline-grabbing controversy—that there’s a deeper, spiritual battle your kids are up against every day. That nagging feeling? You’re absolutely […]

🌟 Does God Still Do Miracles—And Do Our Prayers Matter? Miracles—real, supernatural, unexplainable interventions from God—are at the heart of our Christian faith. Yet so many of us wonder: Are miracles just for Bible times? Or does God still work in powerful, mysterious ways today? And, if He does, is our praying a factor in whether we see them? As Christian […]