Is your mental illness a sin, demonic oppression, or simply a physical illness? In this article, I dive into a theology of the brokenness of this world, mental illness, and the demonic world.

What if good theology and beautifully true fiction could both work together to carry us through our suffering?

Where does courage come from? Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but moving forward despite the fear. How do we do that? By grounding ourselves in the love of Christ and our love for another.

Does your work as a stay-at-home-mom ever feel embarrassing and shameful? Do you feel less-than because of your “so-called job”? Here’s your encouragement, mom: Your work is worthy. Here’s how we can hold our heads high as we tell people we are stay-at-home-moms.

Is our suffering essentially good? Are there truly any gifts in the midst of our suffering? Here’s what God’s greatest gift is to the suffering saint.

Maybe writers serve an audience best when we don’t think about that audience as much as people say we should.

Have you ever felt like motherhood completely swallowed you whole? Like your identity, life, and passions all evaporated? I did, and as I neglected myself, I slowly fell apart. Yet God led me to stories, and used them to piece my heart back together.

How are you teaching your children about God? As believers, we may think that as long as we share the key stories, send our children to church and youth groups, and memorize the passages from our curriculum, all will be well. Yet we live in a world of deconstructed faith and every wind of false doctrine. What if our children need more than memorized Bible verses and a children’s program at church?

Is my OCD an illness or simply the sin of idolatry that I need to kill? Here’s encouragement from my story of how God has comforted me in my battle with intrusive thoughts and obsessive compulsions.

The writers who know their words—just like the grass of the field—won’t last forever will be able to write better words.

Are children simply born with a good imagination, or is it something we must cultivate in them? I believe its both, and here is how two women in my life worked to make my imagination what it is.

Do you strive to keep your home and children orderly and beautiful because you want them to glorify God and love the right things—or because you want others to think well of you?

If I still struggle with sin, am I even a Christian? If I’m facing the same struggles I did before I was saved, maybe I was never saved at all? The heart of these questions is a confusion about our sanctification and justification—here’s a simple answer.

In the midst of suffering, it can feel as if it will never end, but as believers we have the hope that the Shadow, no matter how long, is a small and passing thing.

In wisdom we look to a future that is promised, not a future that is proven by our past.

Is love always welcoming to everyone? What if sometimes loving those most precious to us means driving away those who seek to harm them?

Slowness to speak isn’t just for our benefit, but for all those who will hear our words—and words usually only grow wiser with time.

An open letter to all the godly nursery workers at church: Your work is important to the kingdom, and you are following in Jesus' footsteps.

Have you ever considered advice to be a dangerous gift? Tolkien thought so. We should always be careful to never give unguarded advice.

Is the gospel simply the doorway to Christianity? Or the whole of it? We need to make the gospel the binding of our lives.