Christian and Unashamed

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. – Romans 1:16

My name is Cheri, and I’m a Bible-believing Christian.

This is how I’d like to introduce myself, because if you were to know just one thing about me (besides my (more…)

Help! My Husband Is an Unbeliever!

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives. – 1 Peter 3:1

When my husband and I were married, I was what you would call a baby Christian. I was nominally saved and (more…)

Things That Obscure Your View of Jesus

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. – Psalm 119:37

Two seemingly unrelated things converged in my mind today. The first was the notion of eating dinner with my husband tonight. On Monday and Thursday nights, he goes straight from work to his mother’s house to help her. On Wednesday nights, we divide and (more…)

A Little Grace

Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. – James 1:19-20

I walked in the door one day to find a family friend visiting my son. It was a work day, and I had been away from my desk for an hour, so I checked (more…)

Passive-Aggressive Behavior and the Emoji

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head – Christ.  – Ephesians 4:15

It used to be people would express themselves in print using traditional means – old-fashioned standbys such as diction, syntax and punctuation. You could say, “You really should have made a better choice,” and few people would misunderstand the (more…)