Cindy Krall |

Giving Up Bitterness for Lent (A Fresh Idea for a Traditional Practice Part II)

If there's anything that can suck the joy out of life, it's when we're bitter. This week we'll learn from one woman's heartbreaking loss on how we can "fast" from bitterness. It was roughly 1,000 years before the birth of Christ, and there was a famine throughout Israel. Consequently, a man named Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their two sons moved...

Giving Up Something for Lent? A Fresh Idea for a Traditional Practice (Part 1)

Recently, I saw a meme that got my brain spinning regarding Lent. It said that if Jesus were here, instead of asking us to give up something that brought us pleasure, He would be more likely to ask us to give up something that brings us pain. That stuck with me. What if our Lenten fast was about "giving up" those...

You Want to Take A Risk? Four Indispensable Truths That Will Help.

I admire risk-takers. Partly because I've never been much of one and partly because I'm married to one! Recently, I was parked in the story of Jonathan scaling a cliff so he could all but single-handedly attack a Philistine outpost. Risk-taker. Umm. Yeah. I’d say so. Saul's army camped some distance from the Philistines during a military campaign. Jonathan decided, discreetly, to...