To borrow and personalize the oft-quoted words of Eric Liddell: “When I speak I feel God’s pleasure.” Joy is the word I’d use to describe studying, crafting, and offering sermons and teachings to others.

I’m told that the messages God entrusts to me are surprisingly surgical. One pastor summed up the comments of many when he said, “My first thought was, ‘She has such a sweet spirit.’ My second thought was, ‘I think she just removed my appendix!”

My hope is that people’s heads and hearts are spoken to equally, that they sense and are invited more deeply into God’s love, and they leave with gratitude for the surgical authority of God’s Word.