Luke 19:28-40 {Prayer} As a kid, how many of you played the game “King of the Hill”? … So, you remember how it goes. You designate a certain area as the “hill”. It could be a mound, a platform, a piece of playground equipment, or a pile of snow. The person on top…
{Prayer} Gifts are funny things, aren’t they? Sometimes you can feel like you nailed a gift and then it backfires. Other times you can give a gift you are not that confident in and it becomes a winner. With kids, you never know. I wonder why we even got our kids toys…
Luke 9:28-36 {Prayer} If you haven’t been there and done it … you’ve probably seen it happen. A student stays up way too late playing video games, scrolling through their phone, or watching movies. For me in college, it was bowling. You’d think that a bowling alley with 48 lanes wouldn’t have a…
Luke 2:22-35 {Prayer} What child is this? Despite popular opinion of some around here, my favorite Christmas hymn is not Go Tell It on the Mountain but instead is What Child is This. Not only is this my favorite Christmas hymn, but it can easily be one of those questions pondered by expecting…
Luke 1:38 {Prayer} The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by Congress on September 16, 1940. It required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register with the Selective Service. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl…
Luke 2:8-20 {Prayer} Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or on Christmas day? How about your stockings? Do you get to check those every day or just on Christmas morning? Is your tree artificial or real? Do you decorate the outside of your house as well as the inside? These…
Luke 1:39-45 {Prayer} Being that my daughter is ten and going on 17, it has been a while since I’ve been to a baby shower. And being that she is only ten, it better be a while before I attend another one. Last year seeing her as a pregnant Mary in the Christmas…
Luke 1:67-79 {Prayer} Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you something really awesome, really great … and you can’t tell anyone about it? Jessica and I have learned over the years that we don’t tell the kids what it is that we got each other for Christmas because they can’t keep…
Luke 2:21 {Prayer} Some people choose to find out if they are having a boy or a girl before he or she is born while others choose not to. Gender reveal parties are now a pretty common thing and there are so many different ways in which people do them. You can spend…
Luke 17:11-19 {Prayer} There is another version of the Offertory, a song which is giving thanks to God, which is based of Psalm 116:17-19. Here’s what these verses say, “I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows to the LORD…