by Andrea Lopez | Apr 20, 2025 | For Such a Time as This (Esther) |
Rule Following vs Approval Seeking If you’ve ever spent any considerable amount of time around young children, you might have observed that kids take great delight in many things, but following the rules is not often one of them. At two years old, my youngest has an...
by Andrea Lopez | Mar 16, 2025 | Our God Who Pursues (Minor Prophets) |
The Song of Justice It’s fitting that Micah’s prophecy starts with the imperative to hear. When we read through this short book, we find God’s justice to be quite a loud endeavor. There’s a lot of wailing and weeping. We hear howling like a wild dog and screeching...
by Andrea Lopez | Jan 8, 2025 | Firm Foundation |
Every day before nap, my daughter chooses one song to sing as I put her down. It’s fitting that today she picked the hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy.” As I’m sitting down to write a few thoughts on holiness, the lyrics are still floating through my mind: “Only Thou art...
by Andrea Lopez | Dec 4, 2024 | Rejoice |
Most of us have probably held a sweet, little baby before – maybe our own children, or a friend’s newborn, or a tiny niece or nephew. And we probably wondered what this little baby might grow up to be like. Will he or she love to read? Or be the fastest runner...
by Andrea Lopez | Oct 18, 2024 | Living Faithful in a Faithless Land |
Redefining Humility Pride is one of those funny things where we can actually trick ourselves into thinking we aren’t being prideful at all but humble. This has always been a struggle for me, especially when it comes to working in ministry. When our ministries seem to...