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REFLECTION: EMPTY
September 22, 2023
Just as Jesus began His ministry, word had spread that He might be the promised Messiah. The Savior of the world all of the prophets had foretold had arrived, and at the sermon on the mount,...
RALLY CRY
August 13, 2023
The end of summer is bittersweet. Bitter because it’s the end of the best season ever. Sweet because we return to a kind of normalcy of rhythm that we tend to like. Or, at least, this is how...
LET IT MORPH
August 6, 2023
Everything is always changing. This is the reality in which we all live. Despite this certainty, change still surprises us. When we consider our My One Word journeys, we should anticipate, and...
DOG DAYS
July 22, 2023
Summer is my favorite. I love the sun. I love the heat. I don’t mind the humidity. My car doesn’t have AC, and I’m not even terribly bothered by it. But here we are in the dog days of...
THE PRICE OF ATTENTION
July 12, 2023
What catches your eye will capture your heart. Our attention and our affection are directly connected. We live in a world where our attention is bought and sold with every scroll, click, and...
TAKE A MID-YEAR BREATH
July 1, 2023
Today, we are officially half way through the year, so it’s kind of like a mid-year check-in (which, of course, is better than a mid-life crisis!) This exercise does not require a new...
RENEWED HOPE
May 17, 2023
This time of year is a waypoint of sorts. January is a little dot in our rear view mirror and summer is on the horizon. It’s an opportunity to check in on our words now they’ve had the chance...
THE MESSY MIDDLE
May 8, 2023
It was just last month we celebrated Easter. I had intended to post the excerpt below on Good Friday. But that Wednesday before, something shocking happened…my dad passed away unexpectedly from...
EVERYDAY. ORDINARY. HOLY
March 31, 2023
We’ve just finished this series, Everyday Ordinary, and the challenge was (and is) how we work out the implications of what we believe about Jesus in our everyday, ordinary lives– the...
A Prayer For The Week’s End
March 23, 2023
“Lord, did I participate well with You?” On Sunday , our church was introduced to this as our prayer for Friday – to seek the Lord, to reflect and to examine our week at its end with this...