Home for the holidays
I was so looking forward to our first Christmas as a married couple. Decorating our apartment, shopping for gifts, baking my favorite Christmas goodies...
God’s call to connection
"W
e wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas."
Our television sang out the ending to another Hallmark holiday movie. I was...
Sowers, seeds and sermons
Since leaving pastoral ministry a little over a year ago and moving to the opposite side of the pulpit, I have listened to many...
The very words of God
Lynn: Public Bible reading in worship has strong biblical support. When Moses gave the Torah to Israel, he commanded the people to read it...
Hope to see you again—and why that might happen
Do you remember the least favorite of essays you had to write every new school year? “How I spent my summer vacation” or something...
Life on mission
There is little chance that anyone who has chosen to be in a faith-follow relationship with Jesus would not “vote for” living as a...
Stewarding our children
Once, I thought we’d be perfect parents.
Then we actually had children.
As if to put an exclamation point on our inadequacy, our twin daughters were...
The kids are listening
If you are a parent, you send a lot of “work messages” to your children. They pick things up from what you say and...