Have you ever observed Lent? Until a few years ago, I had not. Having grown up in a tradition which didn’t observe the church calendar, the closest I ever got…
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Reposting and updating a popular post from last December in the hope that we all grow from what God teaches us from 2016 and how he is leading us toward 2017. Why take…
I’ve been thinking this week about these words to Joy to the World as I have finished our preparations for Christmas: “Let every heart prepare Him room.” It has me assessing…
If you aren’t a sports fan, bear with me. Sometimes lessons from sports are so applicable to our spiritual lives that we have to hear the story. On Sunday the…
Once again I need to read through the Bible. Without a reading plan, I feel like I am on a boat lost at sea with no sense of which way…
Why take time to reflect at year end? Because God made us to grow and learn as we progress through life. We waste our hardships and our sorrow when we…
It’s December 18th as I write this. With only a week until Christmas, most of us are busy wrapping gifts, finishing up work that must be done by the end…
I can’t seem to shake heaviness this Thanksgiving as I think of people who are struggling with major hardships, many friends who are bearing sorrow and loss, and thousands being…
Are your margins filled? “Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. Today we use margin just to get by.” From Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial…
After placing a new plant under a lamp in our den, I noticed that it looked different during the day than at night, as you can see in the pictures. When…
