All We Are is Dust*

... and Why That's a Good Thing!

All We Are Is Dust and Why That's a Good Thing

Have you ever had — or do you have now — a boss or a teacher or a family member that you just can’t please? No matter what you do, it’s never enough. You can’t ever seem to meet their standards or make them happy. It feels like you’re always falling short, messing up, making mistakes. […]

You Are More Than Your Mistakes

You can’t read the Gospels without seeing His love and mercy and grace. His compassion for those caught in sin, bowed down with guilt and shame. Jesus was called “a friend of sinners” because He deliberately sought out those who were lost… society’s outcasts, the undesirables, the untouchables. The ragamuffins. He went looking for them and […]

The Father’s Heart

I can’t remember the first time I heard the story… probably before I was two years old. I know I’ve heard it many hundreds of times since. It’s found in Luke 15:11-32, and it begins: “There once was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Give me my […]