Next week I’m reading my poetry in public for the first time in fifteen years. My coffee house and campus glory days are way behind me. I’ve since been saved, sober, baptized, re-married, ordained as
Read moreAuthor: Will Schmit
New Creature, New Job
Thursday I punch a clock for the first time in years. I’m taking on a second job to reduce my debt-to-panic ratio. I don’t often, maybe ever, sense I’m being led by the Lord, but
Read moreInspired Reading – Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home
The New Normal is not a suburb in Illinois. It is where our wounded wait for loved ones to heal from the hurt they brought home from the war. Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home (Revell Books)
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I ain’t dead yet, so I have no authority to speak on the subject. I take it from the Word that death has lost it’s sting, but in the past few weeks I’ve seen sudden
Read moreLove Lifts
The strongest man I know lifts his wife in and out her wheelchair everyday and has for forty years. He’s weakening now, but still proclaims that God is in control. Some days that’s maddening,
Read moreReading Lolita in Tehran – Book Reviews
I’m not sure there’s a more important book for Christian women to read than Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir written by Azar Nafisi that tells the stories of Muslim women who gathered to form a
Read moreTool of Worship
“All who are gifted artisans among you shall come and make all the tools of worship that the Lord has commanded. ” Exodus 35:10 It must have been an amazing, busy time watching as the
Read moreChristmas Giving
If its the thought that counts, then consider yourself gifted. After all, grace is given each of us by God to cheer us up, eggnog notwithstanding. I believe, for example, that we’re called to prophesy.
Read moreBook Reviews: Midnight in Aisle 7 by Jay Lowder
Enjoying a book usually means I wish I wrote it. Not this time. What Jay Lowder went through to get the stories in Midnight In Aisle 7 down on paper I wouldn’t wish on a
Read moreElection Sure
We cast ballots, fishing lines, and our fate to the wind. Scripture ( 1 Peter 5:7) reminds us to cast our cares to God. Of all the preposterous ideas that faith requires, the notion that
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