Throughout the Bible, we see people and groups of people build an altar to worship God. There are times when God commands it, and other times, they are simply compelled to do it. Why is this important, or does the difference even matter? I think this is to show us that sometimes we don’t feel…
Choices are one thing we all have in common. We make choices every day in order to live. Choices are one of the greatest gifts God has given us. Choices like, do we want ice cream or brownies for dessert, who we get to marry, where we live and work, but especially the choice to…
Today I sat down to write a blog and was STRUGGLING to find the words I needed to express my point. I wanted to talk about a verse from Ecclesiastes, but all my words fell short of what I was trying to convey. As I was sitting, typing, and deleting, a thought popped into my…
Jonathan was the son of King Saul. He was also best friends with David, God’s chosen replacement for Saul’s throne. Saul, Jonathan, and David had each found the age of fifteen to be an important year in their lives. Saul was around fifteen when Jonathan was born. Jonathan was around fifteen when he defeated the…
We live in a world of sound bites. “X,” formally known as twitter, began to limit our number of characters to one good sound bite. Sermons now have three points that all have alliteration, and we have a phone that holds our phone numbers, (Truthfully, I have to look up my own children’s numbers). We…
“For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long…
As we come out of the Memorial Day weekend, all moms are breathing a sigh of relief. May is over. The month that has been said to be “like December without the gifts” is finally done! End of school activities, sports, clubs, graduations and recitals, tournaments and last-minute teacher/parent meetings have come to a close…
“ ‘You are a king then,’ said Pilate. Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. In fact the reason I was born and came into this world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me.’ ‘What is truth?’ retorted Pilate” (John 18:37-38a NIV). What is truth?…
Luke tells the story of three men who loved deeply. One son who loved only himself; another son who loved others conditionally; and the father who loved unconditionally and selflessly. The story of the prodical son is a parable about a father and his two sons. It is woven together with many threads of love.…
Today is a hard day for some, many actually. Whether you are a mom or not, one thing we can all settle on is that we have a mother. She may be your biological birth mom, a chosen mom (like a mentor), a stepmother that loves you as her own, or an adoptive mother who…