Count the Cost
I have four different apps on my phone that are designed to help me get healthy and fit and lose weight. One of them…
family
Give Them Something To Eat
On Friday nights, I get a little homesick. For the past seven or so years, every week we gathered at my sister-in-law’s house for dinner…
What I am learning as I give up social media for Lent…
#1 – I seek praise, sympathy, solidarity through social media. The smallest, most insignificant thing could happen and my first instinct is to post it…
The Institution of Marriage
**uploading some older sermons as I sort through files. This one in particular was a joy to write and I was blessed by the opportunity…
Prayers from the kitchen sink
We must — at some point along our Lenten journey — be candid about death. Lent begins with the reminder of our mortality, with the…
Prayers from a child's love
Holy One, You often turn my understanding upside-down. Just as I catch a glimpse of you in the chaos, you become a calm breeze. When…
Prayers from the wreckage
I’ve been following the Lenten prayer prompts from Faith and Water for these forty days. I’m a bit late and doing some catch-up, but the…
salvaging a forgotten purpose
Six years ago, I purchased a FranklinCovey planner. And then technology changed and I started keeping track of my calendar through gmail and with a…