michelle joy waters

As meetings, practices, schools, and travel get cancelled one by one due to the pandemic known as the coronavirus, we find ourselves taking stock of what's t...

Lent is a time to subdue our physical nature in the hope that our oft forgotten spiritual nature will be brought to the surface, refined, and begin producing...

No one knows exactly how many thoughts we have each day, but it's more than you'd expect: experts say it's up there in the tens of thousands. Ninety-five per...

Sadly, the time has come. Truth be told, it's long overdue. My beloved Bible—the one that's been with me for the last twenty years—has fallen apart. I did my...

He's my PEACE when there is no peace. Jeremiah was having a moment with the leaders of God's people. They were supposed to be lovingly caring for His preciou...

I heard a great interview the other day with former NFL player turned Life Coach Trent Shelton. The two main take aways were: protect your peace and start now...

Everyone loves a new beginning. We don't have to wait until the new year to start over; the first Sunday of Advent signals the beginning of the church calend...

Getting past Halloween means one thing and one thing only: we have now entered the holiday season. Most people will white knuckle it through October 31st bef...

I didn't plan to spend three hours yesterday getting X-rays and a cast for my oldest son. But it also didn't send me into some kind of frenetic tailspin for ...

Ah, back to school. Most moms breathe a sigh of relief as the bus pulls away that first day. But by day four or five, what begins as mild mayhem starts its s...

All eight of us are coming and going a lot more than usual this summer. Trips with friends, camps, vacations, competitions, a funeral, and travel for work. N...

"I don't know what God wants me to do." That's something I hear quite a bit. We'd love God to give us clear direction about the big and small decisions we fa...

Preacher, evangelist, and prayer warrior, R.A. Torrey, graduated from Yale Divinity School more than 100 years before I did. He also had lots of children and...

What happens when we pray? We move from the impossibilities of our humanity into the infinite possibilities of His divinity: "with man this is impossible, bu...

While many of us have good intentions regarding spending time in prayer, life gets in the way. There's always something competing for our attention. Without ...

Let's face it, we all encounter problems in our prayer life more often than we'd like to admit. Lack of motivation, not committing the time and energy, failu...

As much as we may not like it, our obedience to God's commands determines how effective our prayers are. "If we would have power in prayer, we must be earnes...

"The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective" James 5:16. Would you describe your prayer life as powerful? Not many of us would. Yet we believe...

I can still hear the sweet, elderly voice of one of my early Sunday School teachers saying, "boys and girls, fold your hands, close your eyes, bow your heads...

I've devoted part of this Fall to learning everything I can about prayer and fasting. I started this summer by reading A Treasury of Prayer based on the writ...