July 2025. Consider this scene in the Bible, with Jesus in Matthew 9: “…the blind men came to Him, and He asked them, ‘Do you believe that I’m able to do this?’ ‘Yes, Lord,’ they replied. Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you.” How is your faith? Are you believing for big things? Are you struggling with unbelief? God is not a genie in a bottle, but He invites us into a life of bold faith. Faith in ourselves, in our own abilities?

June 2025. It’s common for our thought life to default to negative “what ifs.” What if I get fired? What if my kids make bad decisions? What if I have cancer? If we dwell on these thoughts and let them run wild, our anxiety goes through the roof. We’re drained of our peace and joy. I came across a great solution from the counseling pastor at our church, Dan Broyles: how about we take the fearful “what if” and turn it into a faith “what if?” For example: what if…this turned ou

May 2025. Anxiety is a topic that comes up often in my coaching practice. It seems that nobody is immune to it. The Bible speaks to our anxiety in specific, actionable ways. Which tells us that God knows all about our anxiety, has compassion for us, and wants us to be free! Here are a few pro tips straight from Jesus: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you

April 2025. I’ve been mulling over lately how we get stuck in old patterns of thinking and behaving. Patterns that are self-defeating and not serving us or anyone else, for that matter. Isn’t it the human condition, as the apostle Paul says in the Bible, to do the very thing we hate? And not do the thing we WANT to do?? Hurts and trauma from our past can lead us to form some faulty conclusions and wrong assumptions; conceivably, to protect us from ever experiencing those thin

January 2025. Friends, it’s been a terrifying, grief-filled time here in the Los Angeles area these last 11 days. Many people have lost everything they owned in these devastating fires. Emergency overload and catastrophe fatigue are weighing on souls. For the people who were directly affected, the initial horror of the fires has morphed into urgent challenges: where to take refuge, and how to carry on with life’s responsibilities with no practical basics of living in place. M