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Living Life on Loan: Lent 2016
This is a follow-up to last week's post on giving something up for Lent that a) doesn't benefit us in the long run, and b) actually costs us something. Instead of giving something up, we should consider giving something over. You can read that post here.At the end of...
A Love So Inconvenient: Lent
Well la-ti-da my 35-minute commute became two hours when I was caught in a snowstorm on Ash Wednesday. Between podcasts I thought about how I was missing the Pastor Husband’s Lenten sermon, and all I kept coming back to was this: Didn’t I just give up something, like,...
The Purpose you didn’t know you had (and why something feels like it’s missing)
This should have been a confession uttered long ago, but I kept it locked up and hoped that God turned a blind eye or was too busy with the orphans to notice.I didn't notice that I had this problem, this deep sin, this ugliness inside of me until I watched the geese...
How to Earn Money in Light of Eternity: a New Year’s reSolution
As we look to live wise in 2016, here is my third post in my series on New Year’s ReSOLUTIONSHere is the first: The 1 New Year's ReSOLUTION You'll Definitely Want to MakeAnd here is the second: 4 Ways to be the Friend that Your Friends Need to Have: a New Year's...
4 Ways to be the Friend that Your Friends Need to Have: a New Year’s ReSOLUTION
Friend, may our friends help us to breathe life and fire and passion and joy into our soul. May we choose friends who are life-giving. Here are some reminders for you and for me as we make this year the wisest year yet.I read through Proverbs, and here is what King...
The 1 New Year’s reSOLUTION that you’ll definitely want to make.
(This is an absolute guarantee.)Friends,2016. I’m so needing this restart. Maybe this is you, too. May the act of physically pulling out my new planner and calendar mentally pull me out of the boredom, the same-old same-old rut that I’ve been accustomed to for the...
His Law is Love: Operation Christmas Child: Advent week 4
A few days ago, the Christmas shoe boxes that you so lovingly created were opened.Loaded onto trucks, shipped across time zones, oceans, and continents, they made their way to their final destinations. To land in a set of little hands and to bring joy and hope and...
Joy to the World (2): The third week of Advent
In my last post, I wrote about how my Jesusy tribe and I love Jeremiah 29:11.11 "For I know the plans I have for you,"declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."When someone gets hurt, so often people say, "well,...
Joy to the World: the third week of Advent
Friends, you know when you come across an ancient treasure so ridiculous and so embarrassing at the same time that you want to show everyone and no one?Say, for example, the binder from 6th grade that says "I love Jonathan Taylor Thomas" all over it, or "Petri +...
His Gospel is Peace: the second week of Advent
Confession: At church on Sunday we had a children's program in lieu of our regular service, so I don't know what week of Advent this is. And according to the four websites I looked at, it could either be hope (I definitely already did that last week), love, joy,...