When I was a teenager, with my youth group, I attended area-wide worship services that were sometimes a “regathering” of area churches after summer convention, but some of them were services just for teenagers. Like me. I still remember those moments of worship locally and my experiences at convention. In fact, when at convention in…
If you were born in the 1980s or earlier, I want you to think back with me for a second. And even if you weren’t, this is one of the ways of how we got to where we are. Do you remember the Blackberry? It was a cell phone created in 1999, but their most…
Have you ever watched how your child reacts to present-opening time for their birthday? I don’t know about you, but days and weeks before, our daughter is trying to find every way possible to try and get us to tell her what the present is. She just can’t WAIT. And then the day FINALLY comes….
Sometimes I miss the simplicity of how I grew up. We would spend HOURS outside, making who knows what, while my sister and I pretended we were going to be the next gymnastic Olympians to stand on the podium, using the Rice Krispie “medals” you got in the box, as our rewards. Life was incredibly…
From death to eternal life. From fear to ultimate faith. From sacrifices to our Savior. From a grave to glory. From the first Adam to the last Adam. CHRIST DEATH COVERED IT ALL. Let tears fall today too (see my last post). But let these tears be out of gratitude and humbleness for the greatest…
There are just a handful of holidays that get my teary eyed – Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter, to be specific. These days often bring so many emotions for me as all of them are about what someone else has done for me. It almost sounds selfish to say it that way,…
