Luke 15:1-10 {Prayer} I want you to think of your favorite movie. I want to you to think of that movie you have seen countless times, that movie where you know exactly what is going to happen next, that movie where you can even say the actor’s or actress’ line before they do. Got…
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 {Prayer} Back in the day, I loved to read the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. As you go through the book, you got to choose, you got to decide which the direction the story was going to go. And the thing with those books, if you didn’t like the decision you made…
Luke 14:1-14 {Prayer} One of Jessica’s favorite pass times is people watching. This was especially true back when we were in college and before we had the responsibility of looking after, watching over, and keeping track of our own kids. Back in college at Concordia in Chicago, I specifically remember one time where…
Luke 13:22-30 {Prayer} I came across a devotion which talked a little bit about John Bunyan, not to be confused with the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox Babe. John Bunyan is a seventeenth century Puritan. Of those who know of him, he is most famous for his work entitled “The…
Hebrews 12:1-3 {Prayer} Coming home from a yearly physical one year, Jessica asked me how the appointment went and if I was healthy or not. I said to her … “The doctor said I was as healthy as a Clydesdale ready to run the Kentucky Derby.” Now granted those weren’t the doctor’s exact words,…
Hebrews 11:1-16 {Prayer} Sometimes when you hear something, you automatically associate a particular thing with it. For example, when we hear “Hefty, Hefty, Hefty”, we think trash bags. When we hear, “The quicker picker upper”, we think Bounty. “Be all you can be”, we think Army. “Just do it”, we think Nike. Well…
Colossians 1:15-20 {Prayer} In the opening scene of the movie “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”, Spencer writes a paper for his so called friend Fridge. As Spencer gives the paper to Fridge, this is the really brief interaction they have in the movie. {Show clip} Each paper, each book, each story has those…
Genesis 18:1-14 {Prayer} Ever tell a joke which you thought was great one and all you got in response was crickets? Seems to happen to me all the time … unless I’m telling a joke to one of my kids. They seem to be about the only ones who laugh with me … at…
Luke 10:1-20 {Prayer} In light of one of this summer’s blockbuster movies, Jurassic World Dominion, where the people in the movie have to try to manage living a life where dinosaurs are living amongst them, which needless to say is not an ideal setting, I came across a quote from Mark Gungor which says,…
1 Kings 19:9b-21 {Prayer} People who are perfectionists tend to see the world in a little bit different way than others. For the perfectionist, almost everything is black and white. The gray area of life is very minimal. We perfectionists often feel like we are superhuman, that we are invincible, and able to…