by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
God works in a mysterious way. That’s a line from the old song by William Cowper. The divine operates so much differently than the human. If it were me, I would fix things before they worsened. But God does His work on a scale that we...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Recently, I was reading a bit of David Kinnaman’s thought-provoking book unChristian. (Baker Books, reprint 2007.) It deals with the younger generation’s prevailing perception both of the evangelical church and of the gospel message we present.The...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ten years ago today, I was a young mother who had just sent my first-grader off to school and was home with my three-year-old and one-year-old. The Quesenberry family was living in Birminghan, AL in the fall of 2001. My first awareness of the events of...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
“Let my prayer be counted as incense before thee.” (Psalm 141:2, RSV)”What is incense good for? It appears to serve no practical purpose at all, and its smoke and fragrance soon dissipate. Our prayers are like that because they seem to...
