Sometimes life just stinks. Water heaters break, cars get hit, people we love die, and tragedies happen that we can’t understand. Why? The answer, at its core, is free will. God gave us free will, and with it comes the possibility of both good and evil. Things in this world don’t last forever—our bodies, our belongings, even life itself—because of the original sin. But even in the midst of grief, God’s love surrounds us, and through Jesus, our souls have the promise of everlasting life. Free will doesn’t make life easy, but it is the foundation of both our struggles and the gift of genuine love.

Any of these questions seem familiar? No, not really? Let me change a word or two and I bet it’s something you’ve heard or maybe even said before. If there’s a loving God, why is there so much bad in the world? If God exists, why did [insert bad thing here] happen?

I’m one of the few Christians out here that you’ll hear say this, but I don’t think it’s wrong to question. I think questions are good and they lead us to a deeper understanding. God condemns hardness of hearts, but I’ve never seen Him condemn honest confusion and questions.

25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:25-26 I have so many thoughts here and...

while Eve could sin because obviously she had free will and could disobey God. She was completely capable of unseen sins that live only in the heart such as lust, but the outward showing of those wasn’t available to her. At the beginning Eve couldn’t commit every sin that we can commit today. Adulatory and fornication, for example, weren’t possible, the only humans at that point were Adam and Eve.

I've seen and heard so much on purity culture lately, reels, memes, podcast, it's everywhere. Based on things I've said in the past that continually get thrown in my face I decided to jump in and give my thoughts and we all know it’s going to be side tracked about 2...

Sometime ago my sister saw a clip of Tim Hawkins talking about Job's wife. She didn't save the clip so I didn't see it then, but she told me about it. A short time passed and I saw it on one of my social media pages. I laughed because hello it was funny, but then my...

When we talk about forgiveness there is so much to discuss and unpack and I won’t even begin to cover the surface. We all know the verses on forgiveness, we’re supposed to forgive 70×7. God forgave us so we have to forgive others. Let’s talk first about why forgiveness even matters to God. To do that I feel like we gotta go back to the Old Testament and the law. Calm down, I know speaking of the old Levitical law stresses some of you but just hold on. Before we’re there though we gotta go back, way on back, back, way on back, back to the beginning. We’re starting this rant at the very beginning – Creation.

Before we get into the song go grab the free downloadable journal pages at my store here. They're free so just go get 'em and use 'em. You can print out whichever pages you like and the others just ignore, again, they're free. Now, onto the song. Have you ever...

The other day I was listening to the radio on my way to pick up the kid from school. They gave an illustration, but because it was on the radio it was about 10 seconds long and you know I'm gonna add to it so here goes. Imagine your great grandparents are alive and...

Just in case I haven't told you one bajillion times already I have a devotional book coming out soon about the woman at the well. The first section is all about names and what God calls us, things like forgiven, justified, chosen, bought, adopted, and more. I took...