Blog Articles

This blog was originally the only page at Here’s the Joy (back in 2009 when I started). Now when I write here, it’s with the understanding that about half of my blog posts will become book chapters.

I write about the Christian life, especially as Scriptures are untwisted to show you the hope and joy we have in Jesus Christ.

The number after each year tells how many articles I wrote that year. The number after each article title tells how many comments that article received.

2023 (18)

Nov 27 -- In Which I Invite You to Walk Away from The Courtroom (37)
Sep 20 -- Better Bible Stories (guest post by Julie Cleaveland) (14)
Sep 14 -- I Gave Away 2500 Books (2)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 66th birthday: I Didn’t Know What Trauma Was (22)
Aug 22 -- Does God Really Turn His Face Away? (guest post by Brenda Linn) (19)
Aug 15 -- When God Breaks His People (in Hosea 6) (13)
Jul 24 -- What You Want to Know About Untwisting Scriptures #5 (17)
Jun 15 -- Do You Have a “Jezebel Spirit”? (22)
May 22 -- What You Didn’t Know About Bill Gothard’s “7 Steps Of Action When Asked To Do Something You Think Is Wrong” (18)
Apr 16 -- “When a Ministry is Being Maligned”: Responding to Chuck Phelps about Bob Jones University (10)
Apr 14 -- Here’s Why “Persecution” in the New Testament Is a Bigger Word Than You Thought (28)
Apr 3 -- The Real Reason It’s Important That “Judas Ate Too” (38)
Mar 20 -- That Jesus Dream (guest post) (11)
Mar 13 -- Training Wheels Hinder Our Christian Lives (19)
Feb 27 -- When “the Glory of God” Feels Abusive (5)
Jan 30 -- Dynamics that Keep Abuse in Place in a Church Setting, and How to Address Them (10)
Jan 16 -- David, Meet Peter (and Encouragement for the Rest of Us) (12)
Jan 4 -- The God Who is All Sufficient in 2023 (9)

2022 (28)

Dec 19 -- That Time I Didn’t Want to Read About Jesus (5)
Dec 12 -- Don’t Center Your Life Around the Gospel (12)
Nov 16 -- “Don’t Be a Stumbling Block” (22)
Nov 1 -- The Epiphany that Changed My Life (21)
Oct 18 -- Examining the Label of “Victim Mentality” (20)
Sep 26 -- With Daring Faith: A Biography of Amy Carmichael — new cover, new edition (4)
Sep 14 -- Video Interview about Untwisting Scriptures #4 (2)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 65th Birthday: The Little Red Hen (35)
Aug 29 -- Untwisting Scriptures #4 Audiobook Is Here (4)
Aug 25 -- A Resource for Biblical Study of “Headship” and “Submission” (8)
Aug 9 -- Untwisting Scriptures #4 is Available for Free (0)
Jul 31 -- Here’s the Cover and Whole Chapter Listing for My Upcoming Book (19)
Jul 20 -- What Can We Expect from God? (19)
Jun 18 -- Abba and Ashes (guest post by my husband, Tim Davis, for Father’s Day) (10)
Jun 10 -- Untwisting Scriptures #3 Audiobook Finally Here! (0)
Jun 6 -- 3 Reasons Christians Fail to Care Well for Victims of Domestic Abuse (guest post by MaryEllen Bream) (9)
May 30 -- Our Christian Deconstruction Journey (guest post by my husband, Tim Davis) (62)
May 26 -- That Time I Talked to an SBC Executive Committee Member (13)
May 25 -- Southern Baptists and a Culture that Breeds a Generation of Abusers (16)
Apr 21 -- The Problems with Jay Adams’ Nouthetic Counseling Works-Sanctification Doctrine (52)
Apr 15 -- Did Peter Deny Jesus Out of Fear? I Don’t Think So (26)
Apr 5 -- “(Don’t) Save the Body”: A Response to John MacArthur’s Head of Counseling (56)
Mar 28 -- The Parable of Wavering and Confident (38)
Mar 3 -- Don’t Call It a Bible Study (and some news) (28)
Feb 15 -- Why “Metanoia” Is So Much Greater Than “Repentance”—And Why That’s Important (81)
Jan 31 -- “Jesus Didn’t Have Boundaries, So I Shouldn’t Either” (19)
Jan 13 -- The Shame of the Bleeding Woman (guest post by Helena Knowlton) (16)
Jan 6 -- Paul’s Word for the New Year: “Holy Amnesia” (7)

2021 (35)

Dec 31 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2021 and Looks Forward (10)
Dec 28 -- False Teaching: How Bad Theology Almost Killed My Faith (guest post by Ann-Marie Ferry) (11)
Dec 24 -- When The Psychopathic Megalomaniac Wants to Thwart God’s Plan (22)
Dec 16 -- I Don’t Deserve God’s Love (or Maybe I Do?) A Thought for Advent (12)
Nov 22 -- To Church People who Think Husbands Should Rape Their Wives (23)
Nov 8 -- Here’s How You Can Tell When You Should Listen to Your Feelings (13)
Nov 5 -- Paul Sure Did Confront Peter a Lot in This New Book (14)
Oct 18 -- Let’s Compare Potiphar’s Wife with Tamar, Shall We? (34)
Oct 6 -- Here’s How “Choosing to Believe” Differs from Actually Believing (16)
Sep 5 -- That Time I Tried to Be Like George Mueller: Reflections on My 64th Birthday (16)
Aug 17 -- What Did Jesus Mean When He Said “Turn the Other Cheek”? (17)
Jul 26 -- When Does Sin Become Idolatry? A New Perspective on an Old Question (12)
Jun 30 -- Did the Bereans Think Paul Was a Charlatan? (11)
Jun 22 -- If Someone Offends Me, Should I Not Talk About It? (11)
Jun 14 -- “If you can’t say something nice” . . . in Colossians 4:6 (9)
Jun 8 -- Two Bits of Big News about Untwisting Scriptures (0)
May 31 -- Yes, We Really Do Have Authority in Jesus Christ (4)
May 25 -- The Parable of the Talents, for a Fearful Abuse Survivor (14)
May 13 -- How to Come Out of a Cult and Find Jesus (9)
May 9 -- A Prayer for Anna Duggar on Mother’s Day (23)
May 5 -- Those 365 “Fear Not” Verses in the Bible (23)
Apr 19 -- Casting Out Fear by Whistling a Happy Tune (7)
Apr 8 -- Does He Look Like He Loves You? (Guest Post by “Mara”) (4)
Mar 31 -- 6 Ways “The Gospel” Is so Much More than You’re Usually Told (10)
Mar 25 -- Is Empathy Still a Sin? The Joe Rigney / Hannah Anderson Conversation (25)
Mar 17 -- The Amazing Grace Cycle (Guest Post by Deborah Brunt) (5)
Mar 10 -- Restoring a Pedophile, According to Jay Adams (5)
Mar 3 -- Here’s the Link to that Zoom Interview with Me about Patriarchy (6)
Feb 26 -- Two Time-Sensitive Messages (4)
Feb 22 -- “We Are Just as Vulnerable”: A Response to The Gospel Coalition (28)
Feb 18 -- 4 Effects of Rules Without Relationship (From the Book of Romans) (23)
Feb 10 -- How Pedophiles Are Forgiven, From the Teachings of Jay Adams (27)
Jan 26 -- Second Untwisting Scriptures Book Finally Coming Out! (18)
Jan 18 -- 5 Reasons You Need to Come to the CTPM Retreat in May 2021 (5)
Jan 5 -- How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile (91)

2020 (19)

Dec 24 -- Hope for the Weary at Advent (Guest Post by Teri Zalk) (4)
Dec 14 -- Here’s Why “Gratitude Motivation” Isn’t Biblical—and What’s Better (22)
Nov 13 -- [FREE GIFT] Here’s What to Do When You’re Too Frazzled to Know How to Pray (7)
Nov 10 -- Your Pastor Isn’t Moses: A Response to John Bevere’s “Under Cover” (82)
Oct 22 -- Small to Great (Guest Post by Rochelle Sadie) (9)
Oct 7 -- Do You Always Have a Log in Your Own Eye? (7)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 63rd Birthday: The Box of Things I Don’t Know What to Do With (22)
Aug 2 -- That “Obey Your Leaders and Submit to Their Authority” Scripture: Examining Hebrews 13:17 (27)
Jul 20 -- An Update on My One-on-One Ministry (6)
Jul 13 -- Why You Need to Listen to Your Emotions (5)
Jun 23 -- “Loyalty” Is Not a Christian Virtue (30)
Jun 1 -- Bill Gothard’s Umbrella Heresy in a Day of Protests Against Police Brutality (17)
May 12 -- Christians and Conspiracy Theories: A Response to The Gospel Coalition (47)
Apr 28 -- What The Truman Show Can Illustrate About Church (8)
Apr 12 -- Rejoice in the Resurrection of Our Lord! (0)
Apr 9 -- The Arrest of Jesus Reminds Us That We Need to Understand the Pharisees (15)
Mar 13 -- Untwisting Scriptures About “Your Rights” (a Video) (11)
Feb 17 -- A “We Care About Sex Trafficking” Initiative Parable (By Anonymous Guest Writer) (12)
Jan 13 -- That Time I Tried to Be Transparent in a Small Group . . . (47)

2019 (37)

Dec 2 -- Blessings Are Not Sweet Little Things (Guest Post by Deborah Brunt) (2)
Nov 26 -- What’s the Best Way for Us to Bring Glory to God? (9)
Nov 25 -- Is God Glorified Through Our Suffering? (28)
Nov 21 -- Why the Jeffrey Epstein Case Matters to Christians (45)
Nov 12 -- Did I Do All I Could for My Siblings? (Guest Post by Erika Smith) (22)
Oct 28 -- “The Return of the Daughters” Meets Rachael Denhollander (40)
Oct 14 -- Here’s What’s Wrong With God Looking Through the “Filter” of Jesus to See His Children (29)
Oct 7 -- “Your Greatest Problem Is Your Own Sin” (Guest Post by Valerie Jacobsen) (12)
Sep 23 -- What Does “Loving Your Enemies” Look Like With an Abuser? (30)
Sep 16 -- “Look To the Cross More”: A Response to the “Gospel-Centered” Movement (18)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 62nd Birthday: “What if Your Life Were Written as a Story?” (22)
Aug 19 -- The Best Counsel I Ever Received—It’s Not What You’d Expect (Guest Post by Ruth Harris) (10)
Aug 6 -- Are Wolves Proliferating in the Churches? (25)
Jul 29 -- A Gothard Girl Testifies About the “Root of Bitterness” (Guest Post by Lauren Rose) (23)
Jul 22 -- Can God Be in the Presence of Sin? (12)
Jul 15 -- Have You Been Philippians 4:8’d? (27)
Jul 8 -- “Why Are You So Fearful? How Is it That You Have No Faith?” (9)
Jul 1 -- For Those Who Don’t Want to Waste Your Lives . . . (17)
Jun 24 -- “It’s Not About You” (25)
Jun 17 -- “Your Empathy Is a Sin”: A Response to Desiring God (118)
Jun 14 -- A New Church Parable of the Good Samaritan (14)
Jun 10 -- “Better Than I Deserve” (24)
May 30 -- Will God Send Leanness to Your Soul? (3)
May 27 -- Three Fingers Pointing Back at You (35)
May 21 -- What Does “Fear of Man” Really Mean? And Other Observations About Fear (11)
May 20 -- Is Your Fear Sinful . . . Or Actually Pleasing to God? (19)
Apr 25 -- Faith in All It’s Splendor (17)
Apr 23 -- The Good News About Biblical Bitterness: A Short Talk (10)
Apr 11 -- Those “Renegade Bloggers” in the Christian Post (27)
Apr 3 -- That Forgiveness Talk at Harvest Bible Chapel (50)
Apr 2 -- Because It’s Appropriate for a Victim to Name Her Offender (0)
Apr 1 -- New Book for Help With Praying When You’re Under Spiritual Attack (5)
Mar 26 -- You Should Come to Church to “Give” and Not to “Get” (8)
Mar 18 -- When God Is Not Disappointed With You (20)
Feb 4 -- When “Moral Failure” is Redefined as “You Didn’t Submit to Church Authority”: Thoughts on the Harvest Bible Chapel Scandal (7)
Jan 28 -- 5 Things Needed More Than Theology for Unity in the Church: A Response to Al Mohler (22)
Jan 23 -- The Secret to Living a Life That Pleases God (5)

2018 (60)

Dec 31 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2018 and Looks Forward (4)
Dec 26 -- Joseph Wasn’t Afraid of “Rebellion, the Sin Like Witchcraft” (11)
Nov 27 -- Looking For “Evidences of Grace” in the Life of an Abuser (19)
Nov 22 -- At Thanksgiving, Here’s One of the People I’m Thankful For (5)
Nov 19 -- The Vision of James MacDonald, Mega-Church Pastor Who Sues Bloggers’ Wives (29)
Nov 14 -- What Place Does “Striving” Have in Sanctification? A Response to Heath Lambert (10)
Nov 13 -- Reconciling the “Resting” and the “Striving,” With Some Thoughts From Heath Lambert (10)
Nov 12 -- Struggling With “Striving”: When Should I Strive and When Should I Rest? (12)
Oct 31 -- What Is Real Christianity? (5)
Oct 28 -- For My Mother (1927-2018) (56)
Oct 24 -- New Website Page: The Beliefs Behind the Blog (0)
Oct 9 -- Is Exposing Evildoers a Violation of the Ninth Commandment? A Response to Tim Challies (Part Two) (11)
Oct 8 -- Is Exposing Evildoers a Violation of the Ninth Commandment? A Response to Tim Challies (Part One) (10)
Oct 4 -- What About “Repressed Memories”? A Response to John MacArthur (40)
Sep 26 -- “Why Are You So Negative?” A Response to “Positive” People (16)
Sep 25 -- A Message to the Wounded Helpers: What Would Jesus Do? (5)
Sep 17 -- “You Can’t Argue With Success” (Guest Post From a Former Pastor’s Wife) (7)
Sep 14 -- If You Were Harmed, Does That Mean You’ll Blame God? And Other Questions for John MacArthur (32)
Sep 12 -- Social Justice is Not the Gospel: A Response to John MacArthur (18)
Sep 10 -- No “Digging Up the Past” Allowed: A Response to Nouthetic (“Biblical”) Counseling (38)
Sep 5 -- Reflections On My 61st Birthday: “Why Don’t I Ever Meet Those People?” (38)
Sep 3 -- Should The Master’s University Insist on Loyalty to Authority More Than Care for the Oppressed? (11)
Aug 14 -- Thoughts On Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theorists, Inspired by the Thomas Chantry Trial (6)
Aug 10 -- Are You Exiled From God? (0)
Jul 27 -- Cleanse Your Guilty Conscience, Get Grace, and Other Solutions to the Noisy Soul: A Response to Jim Berg (Part 3) (8)
Jul 25 -- The Solutions to the Noisy Soul: A Response to Jim Berg (Part 2) (19)
Jul 23 -- Quieting a Noisy Soul by Jim Berg: A Response (Part 1) (21)
Jul 17 -- An Absolute Must If You Want to Deeply Help Others in the Church (21)
Jul 17 -- “The Unbelieving Spouse Is Sanctified by the Believer”? Examining 1 Corinthians 7:13-16 (Part Two) (12)
Jul 16 -- “The Unbelieving Spouse Is Sanctified by the Believer”? Examining 1 Corinthians 7:13-16 (Part One) (18)
Jul 12 -- Are You the Prodigal Son or the Older Brother? (9)
Jul 2 -- Why We’re Glad We Considered an Alternative to Four-Year College (12)
Jun 17 -- My Dad In the 1960s: Integrity vs “Virtue Signaling” (5)
Jun 15 -- The “Slippery Slope” of Victimization (13)
Jun 12 -- The SBC Sexual Offender Database That Isn’t: My Inside Peek (12)
Jun 10 -- Behind the Broken Wall, Beyond the Torn Curtain (4)
Jun 7 -- The Most Important Time to Stop Going to Your Church: A Response to the Gospel Coalition (39)
Jun 4 -- Making Sense of the Church World’s Epidemic of Abuse (18)
May 26 -- Commentary on JD Greear’s Facebook Live Statement (11)
May 24 -- A Letter to the Washington Post Revealing Abuse at an SBC Seminary (16)
May 23 -- What Students Thought About Paige Patterson’s Forced Early Retirement (4)
May 17 -- 5 Reasons For Church Small Groups to Replace “Transparency” With “Integrity” (17)
May 15 -- Reason Trumps Emotions? 90% of Evangelicals Say Yes (23)
May 13 -- Happy Complicated Mother’s Day (28)
May 6 -- Paige Patterson called an abuse advocacy group “as reprehensible as sex criminals” (5)
May 4 -- Paige Patterson and a Culture That Breeds a Generation of Abusers (27)
Apr 30 -- Sin and Holiness: A Poster (7)
Apr 27 -- When Is it Wrong to Be a “Living Sacrifice”? Reexamining Romans 12:1 (5)
Apr 20 -- Are All Christians Hypocrites? A Response to a Bill Hybels Supporter (12)
Mar 30 -- Defeat That Roaring Lion (3)
Mar 19 -- No More Karma Christianity (20)
Mar 5 -- How to Handle Those “Forgive and Forget” Scriptures (20)
Feb 12 -- Should You Love Yourself? A Response to Desiring God (22)
Jan 26 -- Rachael Denhollander, SGM, and Bob Jones University (10)
Jan 25 -- Rachael Denhollander Lost Her Church Over Her Advocacy for Abuse Survivors (53)
Jan 22 -- Turpin Tragedy: Is Homeschooling the Problem? (26)
Jan 16 -- David and Louise Turpin: the Picture Perfect Homeschooling Family (126)
Jan 10 -- Let’s Look Beyond Those Generational Labels (6)
Jan 5 -- That “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” Question: A Response to Ryan Fullerton (17)
Jan 2 -- Prayers for Those Who Haven’t Prayed in a Long Time (5)

2017 (66)

Dec 29 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2017 and Looks Forward (4)
Dec 25 -- A Christian Carol (or, Living in the Spirit Present) (0)
Dec 20 -- Husbands, You Don’t Need to Get Her Ready for Jesus: A Response to Desiring God (19)
Dec 19 -- A Better Motivator for Christian Service than Gratitude (6)
Dec 15 -- Happy 33rd Anniversary, Mr. Reasonable (6)
Dec 12 -- Encouraging Thoughts on Forgiveness and Grief (4)
Dec 4 -- You Want to “Suffer Well”? (A Poster) (8)
Nov 30 -- Getting Help With an “Angry Husband,” According to “Biblical Counseling” (20)
Nov 29 -- Don’t Be a Martyr, but Do Suffer in Your Marriage to an Angry Husband (and Other “Biblical Counseling”) (20)
Nov 28 -- Should the Texas Church Shooter’s Wife Have Gotten “Biblical Counseling”? #ChurchToo (22)
Nov 27 -- Grandma, Can I Tell You About My Rape? A Message to Kind Christian Grandparents #YouToo (6)
Nov 24 -- She is “Undiminished” (Guest Post By an Abuse Survivor) (2)
Nov 22 -- Thankful . . . for the Protectors (9)
Nov 20 -- John Piper’s Gossip Post Needs Part 2, to Address Double Standards (16)
Nov 15 -- Untwisting “You Should Surrender Your Rights” (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick) (6)
Nov 8 -- It’s Unbiblical to Surrender Your Rights (6)
Nov 3 -- “Erring On the Side of Grace” When it Comes to Repentance? (9)
Oct 30 -- Does God Crush You Like a Rose to Make Perfume? (19)
Oct 22 -- An Authority Covering Umbrella of Protection Parable, to Celebrate the Reformation (21)
Oct 16 -- Speaking at a Domestic Abuse Conference in Raleigh, NC, in November (0)
Oct 10 -- Tullian: Jesus + Nothing = Everything? (28)
Oct 6 -- “(Adult) Children Obey Your Parents”? Part Two, for Adults Raised in Patriarchy (24)
Oct 5 -- “Children Obey Your Parents”? Part One (5)
Sep 30 -- Here’s an Abuse Survivor’s Plea about Nouthetic “Biblical” Counseling (38)
Sep 29 -- If “Jane” From The Master’s University Were to Seek “Biblical Counseling” (25)
Sep 19 -- Nothing Like The Sheep Sermon to Make You Feel Stupid, Disgusting, and Useless (26)
Sep 12 -- In Which I Have a Small Argument With a Puritan About Suffering (28)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 60th Birthday: Reframing My Name (19)
Aug 29 -- Maybe It’s Time to Stop Praying for God to “Use” You (6)
Aug 27 -- “Jesus as Intercessor”: Barely Restraining God’s Wrath? (16)
Aug 22 -- The Problem of Excommunication: A Response to Desiring God (76)
Aug 18 -- Mr. Charming and Miss Target (a Guest Post at A Cry for Justice) (1)
Aug 8 -- What If You Married a Nazi? (1)
Aug 7 -- “You Just Need to Be Content”: A Response to Desiring God (22)
Aug 2 -- Two Book Recommendations—Funny, Outrageous, and Inspiring (1)
Jul 25 -- Standing Against Evildoers: A Poster (4)
Jul 23 -- A New Website Exposing a Cult (0)
Jul 21 -- My Letter to the Man Who Said Your Marriage is Designed to Kill You (11)
Jul 20 -- Dear Christian, Find Your Life in Jesus Christ (8)
Jul 19 -- Dear Christian, You Are Called to Spiritual Life, Not Perpetual Death (12)
Jul 18 -- Dear Christian, Stop Trying to Die (7)
Jul 17 -- Dear Christian, Your Marriage Is Not Supposed to Kill You (26)
Jul 11 -- Pronoun Trouble in Romans 2 That Can Keep the Oppressed in a Place of Bondage (7)
Jul 7 -- How Easy It Is to Appear Righteous: A Poster (2)
Jul 6 -- To Those in “Biblical” Patriarchy: Return to God (18)
Jul 5 -- “Biblical” Patriarchy: Here’s How You Replaced God (40)
Jun 27 -- Our Only Hope: A Poster (4)
Jun 26 -- Righteous Anger or Sinful? A Response to the Women’s Study Bible (14)
Jun 23 -- Dear Michael Pearl, This Is What Righteous Anger Looks Like (42)
Jun 21 -- If You Know Someone Who Can’t Hold Onto Hope . . . Yet (9)
Jun 20 -- Maybe Your Bitterness Isn’t Really Sinful: A Video Interview (5)
Jun 14 -- There Weren’t Any Wicked People in MY Part of the World (1)
Jun 6 -- The Other Kind of Radical (a Guest Post for Give Her Wings) (7)
Jun 3 -- A Video Interview on the Topic of “Yielding Rights” (4)
May 31 -- The Other Kind of Hypocrisy (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick) (26)
May 22 -- Dear Sister I Read About on the CBCMoscow Blog Post (27)
May 16 -- The Defiled Conscience: Should We Lovingly Help or Sharply Rebuke? (6)
May 8 -- Thoughts for the Hopeless from Isaiah 40 (12)
May 1 -- “The Evolution of This Blog” Updated (0)
Apr 20 -- “Conscience” in the Bible: Insight Into Abusers and Their Targets (14)
Mar 21 -- 4 Ways Teaching Christians to Embrace “I’m the Worst Sinner I Know” Is Harming the Church (40)
Feb 25 -- On Calling People Out Via Social Media: A Response to Jarrid Wilson (1)
Feb 2 -- Why “Moral Injury,” Like “PTSD,” Is a Term That Applies to Far More Than Our Soldiers, and Why That’s Important to All of Us (13)
Jan 26 -- New Book: Tear Down This Wall of Silence Now in Its Second Edition (1)
Jan 18 -- Rethinking the Idol Factory: Challenging the “Idol” Construct as the Explanation for All Sin in the Lives of Christians (45)
Jan 4 -- Tullian Tchividjian, Tom Chantry, BJUGrace, and Gossip (2)

2016 (22)

Dec 28 -- Here’s the Joy Looks Back Over 2016 and Looks Forward (2)
Dec 22 -- A Guest Post on A Cry for Justice (0)
Dec 16 -- What Hypocrisy Is and What It Isn’t and Why That’s Important: A Lesson From Tullian Tchividjian (3)
Dec 13 -- When There’s Something Better than a Surprise (0)
Dec 6 -- Power Over Porn (1)
Nov 30 -- What Does It Mean to “Serve the Church”? (12)
Nov 24 -- What I Learned from the Picture On My Grandmother’s Wall (5)
Nov 16 -- Why Do They Tell You to “Surrender Rights” That Aren’t Even Rights at All? (2)
Nov 1 -- In the Messy Middle of the Story: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Middle (11)
Oct 24 -- Behind the Scenes at “Untwisting Scriptures” (4)
Oct 17 -- Do You See How Significant This Is? (3)
Oct 11 -- Do You Pray for God to “Break” You? (31)
Oct 3 -- New Book on the Way: “Untwisting Scriptures” (11)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 59th Birthday: A Warrior’s Tale (13)
Aug 29 -- Bible Journaling Before Bible Journaling Was Cool (0)
Aug 22 -- Why Did David Lift His Eyes to the Hills? A New Perspective on an Old Question (46)
Aug 15 -- Bitterness in the Bible? It’s Not What You Thought It Was (6)
Aug 3 -- The “Gall of Bitterness” in Acts — It Isn’t Resentment (3)
Jul 27 -- The “Root of Bitterness” in Hebrews–It Isn’t Unforgiveness (10)
Jul 6 -- “You Give Them Something to Eat” (0)
Jun 30 -- Greenville Woman Cannot Bear Evil, Leaves Primary Love. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next. (3)
Jun 23 -- Not Really Six Months of Silence (2)

2015 (10)

Nov 22 -- Lessons From Blind Men and the Elephant in the Room (1)
Nov 15 -- Searching For the One Who is Worth Searching For (3)
Oct 6 -- What Kind of Salvation Did We Get? (7)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 58th Birthday: Found Faithful (3)
Jul 15 -- Let’s Pray Right Now (4)
Jun 23 -- Patience Right Now (4)
Apr 14 -- Note to Self: Stop Saying “I Can’t” (2)
Mar 2 -- If Necessary, Use Words (2)
Feb 17 -- What Kind of Help Do You Need? (0)
Jan 7 -- So Where’s the Fruit? Thoughts on John 15 and the Sower and Seed (0)

2014 (15)

Dec 2 -- Sin? Holiness? Legalism? Hypocrisy? Defining Terms (0)
Sep 24 -- Replying to One Who Says Christians Should Have No Rights (20)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on my 57th Birthday: Stepping Heavenward (2)
Aug 23 -- How Much of a Day of Rest Should Sunday Really Be? (8)
Aug 7 -- Airing My Dirty Laundry at Bob Jones University (2)
Aug 1 -- Psalm 131: How Can I Have a Soul Like a Weaned Child? (8)
Jul 25 -- The Heavenly Man: Revival in China . . . and Iran (1)
Jul 15 -- What Does It Mean to Live in Community? (8)
May 25 -- Letter to an Abuse Survivor Friend (0)
Apr 4 -- The “Peace Child” Story for a New Generation (0)
Mar 26 -- Free From Sin (4)
Mar 13 -- Waging Warfare Through Psalm 18 (1)
Feb 11 -- Taking Up Offenses (8)
Jan 26 -- How Can I Be Strong in the Lord? (5)
Jan 15 -- Is Satan Really a Defeated Foe in My Everyday Life? (1)

2013 (18)

Dec 8 -- For Shame, Beautiful Botkins (29)
Nov 18 -- Ephemeral and Everlasting (2)
Oct 21 -- Who Is Jesus Christ to Me and for Me? (0)
Sep 19 -- Should We Refuse to Talk About the Sins That Are Done in Secret? (9)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 56th Birthday: Thoughts About Moving Into the Basement (17)
Jul 28 -- Ask Him What it Means (0)
Jul 14 -- Checking My Motives (0)
Jun 12 -- Is the Bible Really My Daily Manna? (16)
Jun 5 -- A Song I Love to Hate (17)
May 23 -- Maintaining a False Unity (A Commentary on the SGM Scandals) (4)
Apr 26 -- Is Church Attendance Pleasing to God? (6)
Mar 29 -- The Lion Roared (1)
Mar 10 -- We Are Not Able (0)
Mar 3 -- What Does It Mean to Be Spiritually Dead and Alive? (5)
Feb 9 -- Changing Perspectives (1)
Jan 27 -- The Thick Darkness Where God Was (20)
Jan 13 -- The Prayer of Jabez, Revisited (2)
Jan 6 -- Godliness Through Discipline by Jay Adams: A Response (5)

2012 (18)

Dec 9 -- What Does Real Repentance Look Like? (17)
Nov 18 -- How Can I Give Grace? (14)
Nov 1 -- Joy in Darkness (2)
Aug 12 -- Are All Sins Really Equal? (6)
Jul 29 -- “If You Died Tonight, What Would You Say to God to Get Him to Let You Into His Heaven?” (2)
Jul 25 -- Chief of Hypocrites (1)
Jul 20 -- Glory, Glory, Glory (3)
Jul 15 -- On Holiness and Human Waste (1)
Jun 24 -- No More Night of the Living Dead (1)
Jun 10 -- Broken Wall, Torn Curtain (1)
May 20 -- The Trump Card of Romans 7 (7)
Apr 29 -- Somebody’s Perfect? (1)
Apr 22 -- That I May Know Him . . . (0)
Apr 15 -- What Would Jesus Do, Revisited (2)
Apr 6 -- Resurrection Now (2)
Mar 27 -- Reading Under the Covers With a Flashlight (1)
Feb 28 -- You Gotta Laugh: Hope in the Midst of Alzheimer’s (3)
Feb 14 -- Fresh Bread, Fresh Words (1)

2011 (21)

Nov 7 -- New Book! What the Bible Means to Me (1)
Nov 3 -- Expecting the Joy When You Can’t Feel It (Joy Part 4) (0)
Oct 18 -- Joy Comes as a Response in the Realm of the Spirit (Joy Part 3) (0)
Sep 29 -- Joy Is a Response (Joy Part 2) (3)
Sep 21 -- Maybe Joy Isn’t a Discipline but is . . . (Gasp) a Feeling (Joy Part 1) (8)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 54th Birthday: Getting Old (0)
Aug 30 -- He’s Still the Hiding Place (0)
Aug 24 -- A Brief Timeline of Redemptive History (3)
Jul 24 -- Garments of Praise (1)
Jun 26 -- Is Praise Really a Sacrifice? (0)
May 29 -- Acknowledging My Inability (11)
May 8 -- Life Lessons from Bill Nye (2)
Apr 24 -- A Resurrection Psalm (1)
Apr 3 -- The Joy of Joy Ridderhof (5)
Mar 20 -- Perhaps Another Opportunity in Japan (0)
Mar 6 -- On Reading Through the Bible in 2011 (4)
Feb 20 -- Leviticus: My Wilderness Book (1)
Feb 8 -- Mother’s Day in February (6)
Jan 16 -- Seeing Beyond the Screen (2)
Jan 9 -- A Tribute to Dr. John Dreisbach, Chapter 2 (1)
Jan 2 -- Thirsty Yet? (7)

2010 (11)

Dec 12 -- “Pronoun Trouble” in Galatians 5:16-17 (2)
Dec 5 -- The Magnifying Glass of God (5)
Nov 6 -- Where Does Your Mind Go? (2)
Sep 26 -- How Can I Be Pleasing to God? (3)
Sep 5 -- Reflections on My 53rd Birthday: In the Blink of an Eye (2)
Jun 26 -- I Reviewed a Book on Amazon: Free and Fulfilled (0)
May 15 -- Lean Hard (1)
May 2 -- Facing Anxiety Attacks (1)
Apr 16 -- The Welcome Behind the Veil (0)
Mar 14 -- Writing About Triumph Like Charles Dickens (1)
Jan 31 -- So What’s the Point of Prayer? (0)

2009 (7)

Dec 27 -- Lessons from Teaching English as a Second Language (7)
Dec 20 -- The Peace of God at Christmas . . . and All Year (0)
Nov 28 -- A Tribute to Dr. John Dreisbach, 1922-2009 (6)
Nov 15 -- Maturity: Praying in Faith or in Fear? (0)
Sep 13 -- Reflections On My 52nd Birthday: The Opening of the Eyes (3)
Aug 2 -- Reading Tozer’s The Pursuit of God (0)
Jul 13 -- “He Must Increase, but I Must Decrease” (2)