My Migration Away from Grace Community Church and The Master’s College Quick History: I was saved in 1971. Then, in 1986 I became acquainted with biblical counseling and started taking classes at The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in San Diego. I completed my training under Dr. George Scipione and I received a Certificate in Biblical Counseling in 1990. At that time, I joined the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (now referred to as the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, ACBC). I then proceeded to get a MA in Biblical Counseling from Trinity Theological S ..read more

Well . . . here it comes again: Mother’s Day—or, as I like to call it, the Great Day of Guilt and Discontent. Ugh. Men don’t know what to do with it. It terrifies them. They hope that the gifts they’ve chosen will please their wives and mothers. They don’t want to be known as an ungrateful person who failed to properly honor the woman who gave him life or birthed his children. Women don’t know what to do with it either. Mother’s Day angst sounds like this: I wish I were a mother. I wish I were a better mother. I wish I loved my mother. I wish my mother loved me. I wish my mom were still alive ..read more

Feelings hang from the rafters of thoughts. No surprise they are too rowdy to chill and submit to inventory. Wearing my resolute game face, I leap into the maze of distressed neuropathways that are wild, writhing and fed up with triteness. I shudder at the chaos of figurative meanings that keep forgetting their point. Skirting the hubbub, I duck down an alley so forlorn and forbidding that I’m frightened of the verbiage ahead. Unnerved and undone I am unaccountably lost. Outside of my area of expertise like a tourist like a tourist who has bumbled into a sketchy neighborhood. And it’s there in ..read more

Dear Friends, I thought you would want to know about an opportunity for us to get together (in person or online) and share fellowship around God’s Word. My upcoming event: “Delighting in God’s Word,” will be held on May 18-19, and I hope you’ll be able to join me. I know that for many women reading the Bible can be like doing your algebra homework: Hoping you’ll get it done so you can get a good grade from God for the day. For others I know it’s something you know you should do but frequently struggle to find the time or even the inclination. Perhaps your lack of interest in the Bible is a gre ..read more

Of all the women of faith who might have been honored as part of the genealogy of Jesus, those the Spirit mentions through Matthew are Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and, “the wife of Uriah”:  A woman who played prostitute, a real prostitute, a Gentile widow, and a woman who was the object of sexual abuse. No matter who you are or what your background is, you’re welcome in his family. Come to him in faith–you’ll not be shut out. Tamar was a twice-widowed woman with no children. After being sinned against by both of her husbands, she was sinned against by her father-in-law, who was supposed to provi ..read more

It is an all play this week. We have the largest crew we’ve had yet. It is a family episode and we love it.  ..read more

GUYS! We are pumped to be able to share a preview of a new podcast that is coming out called The Bible. You are going to love it. I promise.  ..read more

In this week’s episode we ramble on for over an hour about Alexa laughing at people, the books we have coming out, and I am not sure what else. Jess closes us out with a devotional on Revelations 21.  ..read more

This week we have Fitzfaithful, Athena Deck, on to talk about her work with the company Mud Love www.mudlove.com. But first she leads us in a couple hilarious games of Mad Libs. Pop closes out the podcast with a devotional on sharing the good news ..read more

A Fitzfaithful asked if our family ever fights, well we answer that question with a recounting of our recent trip to Florida. We talk about Grace Encounter. The conference we just went to. Then Elyse closes out the podcast with a great devotional from Jeremiah 31.  ..read more