Merry Christmas! Is your life better now that it was a year ago? 5 years ago? 10? 40? Wondering where the Merry Christmas is? I’ve been pondering this question this week.I’m wrapping up a video devotional series focusing on The Word. Monday the devotional was centered on this passage of scripture: 1In the beginning the Word […]
God doesn’t always make sense.
Miracle! Years ago, my daughters miraculously survived a massive car wreck. While their babysitter was driving home on a local highway, something fell off the back of the truck in front of her. She couldn’t avoid it, and she hit this metal object at over 65 mph. The results weren’t pretty. The SUV they were traveling in was crushed, flipping multiple […]
Will Work for…Dignity.
Love and Hate I have this relationship. It’s one of those relationships they describe as love/hate. Sometimes I’m absolutely in complete and total love with her. Other times I can’t stand the thought of her – the literal thought of her makes me sick. There are times, though, when I’ve been with her, and I […]
Take that step. It’s just a step.
The classics “We’re the safest folks in the world,” said Miss Maudie. “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians…” – Harper Lee One of the benefits of traveling to a Spanish speaking country is the lack of entertainment in English formats. You could definitely label this a drawback, but I’ve found it helps stimulate […]
Joy!
Joy Unspeakable!! My day job, so to speak, is overseeing the children’s ministry of a local church – Cross Points Church. We call the kids ministry Cross Points Kids. I’m hired to be a children’s pastor, but my job is to lead a team of teenagers and adults who teach kids on a weekly basis. […]
Advent | The Word | It’s Alive!!
Advent Sunday, November 29 marked the official beginning of Advent season. Advent in the church is known as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for celebration of the birth of Jesus. In Latin, Advent literally means coming. Advent can also refer to the Second Coming of Jesus. So this Christmas (as with every Christmas) we […]
Giving. 30 is the new 70.
Give it away. Give it away. Give it away now! One of the big news items this week was Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. Zuckerberg became a father for the first time – a baby girl, Max. Even bigger than Zuck becoming a father was the announcement he made along with the birth news. Zuckerberg wrote an […]
The butterfly and the struggle.
The butterfly We all struggle…even butterflies. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A little boy brought home a caterpillar he finds while playing outside. Fascinated, he asked to keep it. He and his mother placed it in a jar with sticks and grass. The little boy constantly watched the caterpillar eat and move. […]
Gracias | Hvala | Obrigado | Takk | Grazas | Thanks
To TV or not to TV. We don’t watch a lot of regular television in our home…we don’t have cable or satellite. It’s not any sort of statement – it just is. We do have a television and a lot of various other screens (phones, tablets, computers), and entertainment is consumed, but not normally entertainment […]
May all your wildest DREAMS come true!
Napoleon Dynamite One of my all-time favorite comedies is Napoleon Dynamite. I love the combination of comic absurdity and sweet truths. For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, it’s a story about a social outcast (Napoleon) who finds his place through two friends (Deb and Pedro). One of the ways Napoleon finds his […]
