How can it be wrong when it feels so right . . . I bet that if you search, you’ll find some variation of this line in several different songs. I’m no singer/songwriter, but I’ve written my own version of that song. I’ve hummed it about late-night pizza and just one more episode of whatever I’m …
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Summer Reading Plan Part III: Growing Fruit
I was fairly young when I first learned that under the right conditions, growth is guaranteed. I was in middle school and it was during the end of the year locker clean out. I’d like to pretend my locker was the one with cute organizers, fun magnets, and a little mirror stuck to the door. You know, …
Summer Reading Plan: July 9, 2019 Safe with Jesus
My son Max used to love to play the game what would you do if . . . in which he would give a hypothetical situation and then ask how I would would choose between difficult options. For example: if all your kids were trapped inside a burning building, who would you save first? A question like that is …
Summer Reading Plan: Our Father in Heaven
There is a strange paradox with what is familiar. What we know well we hold especially dear. But familiarity can also breed contempt. I would suspect that is true of what might be one of the most frequently repeated prayers of the Bible: The Lord’s Prayer. With this prayer, Jesus teaches His …
Sermons and Circuses
When Koby was little he’d often tell me about how hard life was as the middle boy. He lived the unglorified, misunderstood life of a middle child. He’s not the trailblazer and he’s not the baby. He would moan about it to me for a while, and then he’d almost always reach the same …