It was so unexpected, really. An ordinary yard sale. A much-needed lightening of the load. A minimalist's dream. An organizer's happy place. But a sentimenta...

It's the most wonderful time of the year. We have so much to be thankful for! One of the ways we do that is that we have an entire season of the year set asi...

As the human race, we know conflict intimately. Overwhelming, painful conflict. We know it so personally and spiritually that our emotions can be affected, e...

With October 31 coming soon and Thanksgiving right around the corner I’ve been thinking about two related topics… “What is a nightmare?” and “Why do I eat to...

Generosity is contagious around here! The language school hosted a gigantic party for a local Christian children’s home to kick off their Christmas celebrati...

by Krista Instead of running away from your problems, what if you stood stronger? Let’s be honest. Life doesn’t always end up the way we imagine. But how we ...

On this anniversary, I am reflecting on a post from 2006. The Trekkers My crisp new passport arrived yesterday. The blank pages seem pretty deflating, consid...

by Krista Last week, I was talking to some friends of ours who work with us in member care. When we asked how they were doing, they told us, “Well, we’ve bee...

So, in a lapse of better judgment, I joined Pinterest over the weekend a couple years ago. Maybe a little ambitious for a girl who was really praying she get...

The Master’s College has just released their new online course, The Land of the Bible. We shot the video on location (well, about 100 locations!) for this co...

by Krista This month, we lost a man who we were privileged to work closely with for a little more than a week at the language school. When we heard the news,...

This is an attribute of God that really came alive to me in 2015. For a time, it was something I really wrestled with and fought through, but in the end…well...

by Krista As you can imagine, the goodness of God is something counselees wrestle through all the time in my office. It is one of those foundational truths t...

by Krista I am so thankful for the Wonderful Counselor who offers to train me in wisdom as I study His Word. What an awesome task to teach His Word and I fin...

by Joel Authority is the reliability of Scripture. It is the reality that compliments “inspiration.” In other words, because God is the Author (i.e., the Ori...

by Joel Inspiration is the breath (2 Tim. 3:16) of Creator God communicated through the words that make up the cannon of Scripture we call the Holy Bible. Th...

by Joel The Bible has the final “say” on all theological controversies. In other words, when it comes to highly contested passages and interpretations of tho...

by Krista In this series, I looked at a number of attributes of God and how they relate to counseling. With Christmas right around the corner, we long to be ...

We live in a very spiritual area of the country. People literally come from all over the world to worship here, particularly during certain festivals and eve...

So, we were having breakfast on the back patio when we noticed one of the branches moving. When we looked closer, we realized this slow-moving sloth had prob...