by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
Sunday morning. The acrid taste of dread fills your mouth as you think: I have to go to church. You want to go to church; just not your church. Your church is a ‘good’ church. The music is tolerable, the people are fine, the sermon is okay — mostly based on...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
We’ve all seen Hollywood caricature religious men as pasty-faced, effeminate, and hypocritical. Some artists even picture a testosterone-challenged Jesus. How has a Gospel begun by the Carpenter and spread by fishermen and other workingmen turn into a something for...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
It was a painful lesson God taught me early. When I was in high school, I worked in a nursing home. One of the patients was Jeanie, a former nun dying at age 32 of colon cancer. She was bitter with God for the cancer and felt rejected by Him. In her younger days,...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
The emergency room was deathly still except for my husband’s anguished weeping. Tearless, I held our little son Timmy’s chilling body to my breast, trying to warm him, unwilling to let him grow cold. Bruised from futile resuscitation efforts, he was naked except for a...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
Initially, I wrestled with my calling to Christian leadership because I am female. I had proper gifts for leadership—passion, vision, education, experience, and desire—but I secretly questioned whether I had pushed myself forward when God really wanted me to sit down,...
