{Prayer} This coming Saturday marks the final day of the Red Letter Challenge. For 40 days, we have intentionally put the words of Jesus, those red words in our Bibles, into practice. Through this challenge we’ve focused on five main targets. These five main targets again are … Being, Forgiving, Serving, Giving, and…
{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…
{Prayer} A couple of phrases that bother me the most as a parent are, “do I have too?” and “I did it last time, it’s their turn.” So, my wife came up with a brilliant idea in order to resolve this problem. We have a magnet on the front of the dishwasher and…
{Prayer} Last week we spent a week of being. Being in Christ, being His disciples, being shaped by His Word. But what happens when we fail? What happens when our being is marked by sin? This week, we focus on forgiveness. To illustrate how Jesus deals with our sin, let’s start with something…
Matthew 7:24-27; 9:37 {Prayer} Have you ever had good intentions but completely missed the mark? Maybe you had a plan, an expectation, and it just didn’t go as you hoped. Jessica and I decided to take a trip a couple of years ago to Nashville, Tennessee to celebrate our anniversary. We had…