John 20:19-31 {Prayer} It’s dark outside and you’re home alone. The doors of the house are locked and the garage door is closed. Engrossed in a movie or a book … the outside world doesn’t exist. That is until BAM! All of a sudden there is this noise! BAM! Your mind is racing,…
John 20:1-18 {Prayer} “I know ________.” There are so many ways we could fill in that blank. The philosopher Socrates completed the sentence by saying, “I know that I know nothing.” Very philosophical like of him. Sherlock Holmes once said, “I know what is good when I see it.” And the Old Testament…
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} 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} According to a survey by the University of Scranton, 92% of people don’t finish the goals they set for themselves. 92%. That’s a sobering and rather depressing statistic. Last week we kicked off our Red Letter Challenge. This challenge is something that I don’t want you to start and fizzle out of…
{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…
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…