Youth Camp Update, Day 2 Aristotle famously said, “the unexamined life is not worth living,” and it sounds like our youth are being asked to examine their lives and decisions
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Hi, all – we’re changing things up on the devotional this month. As Phil mentioned Sunday, we’ll have kids out at camps pretty much the rest of the month. For
Read moreBlessed… Even When You Don't Feel Like It
I used to have a long commute to work (“long” being defined as “I had to drive south of 380”). There are a lot of reasons to hate driving that
Read moreAnother Helping of Sin Pie (Hosea Series)
I love pie. Cherry, apple, pecan, pumpkin… I’m not picky. I don’t think I’ve yet met a pie I couldn’t eat too much of. My neighbor made me a pie
Read moreTrue Love: The Divine Romance (Hosea Series)
One of my favorite books is The Princess Bride. The movie is good, but not the same. The one-liners are classic. On the surface, it’s a standard fairy tale, and
Read moreTaming the Shrew – the Hesed of the Lord (Hosea Series)
In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You (a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew), Heath Ledger is a headstrong guy who successfully woos – or
Read moreThe Prodigal Sons
In the awesome video from Sunday, we see what might be an all too familiar scene: a husband and wife fighting. In this case, she walks out on him, rejecting
Read moreHosea 2: The Restraining Love of God
My great-grandma Amalia was a hoot. She was a feisty old German woman who had raised three daughters on a farm in the Panhandle by herself during the Depression and
Read moreMerciless Love: Hosea 1
I work with a lot of dentists, and in those projects, I’ve seen a lot of “before” pictures of really bad tooth problems that they’ve fixed. Black, crooked, chipped or
Read moreHosea: a Fairy Tale of God's Stubborn Love
Fairy Tales seem ingrained in us. We read them as children, and they form the structure for virtually every epic story mankind has ever told. A prince fights to rescue
Read moreTurning Traitor
In the movie “How to Train Your Dragon,” the hero – Hiccup – is in a tough spot. If you’re born into his town, you grow up to be a
Read moreGo All In
On January 8, 1956, five missionaries were brutally murdered in a remote area of Ecuador by a primitive, isolated tribe who felt threatened by these newcomers. All five had distinguished
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