Listening to Casting Crowns’ song “One Step Away” as I woke up this morning began my day, mulling over how grateful I am for God’s complete and total forgiveness and how that gift has completely changed my options. I was completely defeated by my past. There was nothing I could do to change or unmake that choice. There was no possibility of me going back to being the person I was before that day. Guilt and shame had me so twisted around I deep down believed I had blown it so

A song by Stuart Townsend gives the Good News in such a precise way it cuts through all the distractions of the day: "How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure, that He should give His only Son to make a wretch His treasure.."...there are days I feel wretched to my core. There are days I'm flying high. but daily I have the opportunity to contemplate how much the Creator of this amazing, beautiful, turbulent and challenging world loves me and showed me by

Comfort is a gift that is beyond measure in its value. When it is received in times of hardship and pain, it is a refreshment like no other. The joy in it is also seen when it is shared. Often times the comfort we have received in difficult times of our own, opens doors for us to share that same comfort with others who are struggling later in similar circumstances. A hand of Hope, a solace redeemed, a tearful hug as the empathy of the memory of our own experience flows like a

Social justice is Biblical - but its Biblical application is not brought about by division, mandated, administered and imposed by governments. It is initiated by the all-powerful and all-loving God in the ultimate act of seeming INjustice - when a completely sinless Man died for the sins of those who rightfully stand accused of breaking the Law. By accepting that act of injustice for our personal sin, we are acquitted and brought into perfect unity with our substitute - the s