My wife and I both have difficulty making decisions–moving from thought to action. We think about making decisions. We talk about making decisions. But we find it hard to pull the trigger on decisions. What often makes us finally make a decision is when we become pressed up against time. So when it came to making a recent large time-sensitive life decision that would...
“Everybody hurts. Everybody cries.” – R.E.M. We generally don’t need much convincing that this world is not the way it’s supposed to be. We encounter the brokenness of this world around every corner. We are over two years into a pandemic. The war in Ukraine is the latest iteration of armed conflict happening around the world. But we also feel the brokenness more locally....
https://vimeo.com/687919771 We hope you can join us on Saturday April 2, from 9a-12p (in person or streaming online). More details about this conference can be found here.
I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and share a little about what excites me about biblical counseling and my new role at Hope. While a Georgia native (Go DAWGS!), my family is moving to the Durham-Chapel Hill area from Dallas, TX. I am married to Simpson, a Texas native with a crush on the state of North Carolina since college. She is the wonderful...
Monsters in the closet, the boogie man, and creepy crawly things under my bed—as a little girl, both real and imagined fears dominated my thinking at bedtime. Like many children, I was afraid of going to sleep in the dark. To combat these fears, I would pull the covers over my head, stick my hand out on top of the covers and pray, “Jesus, I’m scared. Please hold my...