“If Christianity makes you feel good, if it works for you, great. I respect that. I’d never try to change your views about something that’s so helpful for you.” Ever heard those words? I have, many times. The words of the “respectful tolerant.” You wanna know a secret? I find the words a little insulting.  Though not at all the intent of the speaker, I hear an underlying message: “You are so simple-minded as to have embraced a belief system simply because it makes you feel go

Image Credit: www.123rf.com The other day I saw a man wearing a T-shirt that read,  “Atheists for Jesus.” I was intrigued and considered asking him to tell me more. Did it mean he was a former atheist who has come to realize salvation is not found in a religious code or institution, but through a personal relationship with a Jesus Who claimed to be God and proved it by rising from the dead? I thought I should look up the phrase before making assumptions. This is what the AFJ

This post contains graphic images. If you or someone you know are locking yourself in the bathroom and making little cuts on your sweet little thighs and arms with a razor, and, like the rest of the 17% of people in the world who are doing the same thing, and you want to stop but can’t, here is what your therapist may not tell you about cutting…. From the beginning of time, cutting the flesh has always been about transference of guilt and/or pain. In ancient Israel, the pain

Did Jesus (and His disciples, for that matter) go to church? Here's what my Bible says: “So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart….” Acts 2:46 NKJV “Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me.” Mark 14:48-49 NKJV Evidently Jesus an

(I wrote this post years ago, during an extended time of unemployment for my husband.) Image credit: www.canva.com Recently someone greeted me with congratulations on the published book and said, “That’s wonderful! Your whole life seems wonderful.” I assured her I am far from wonderful,  and wondered how many others are under the same delusion. I’ve had such a difficult time lately that I can’t find words to blog or post. The only Facebook status I could muster yesterday was: