Keep praying for our preteens at Camp Copass! (if you can’t see the video above, click here)
Read moreDifferent Priorities
If you were there with us Sunday, you know we started a new series called “The Kingdom: Life Upside Down” (If you missed it, you can watch it here). We went through Matthew 5:13-16 You are the light of the world. A city set on a...
Read moreYouth Camp Update, Day 3
Youth Camp Update, Day 3
Read moreYouth Camp, Day 2
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 in light of God’s plan for them. Pray that...
Read moreYouth Camp, Day 1
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 many of you, summer camps were an incredible chance to get out of...
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 far south, but the primary reason I hated it was because at rush hour, a million cranky people all...
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 this past week. I don’t remember what she called it, but it was incredible. It was a...
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 follows standard happily-ever-after format: Scene 1: Boy Meets Girl Scene 2: They...
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 wears down, depending on your perspective – Julia Stiles, who plays a...
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 her husband and choosing a “fun” life over the stability and safety of her...
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 the Dust Bowl after her husband ran off. Granny was salty, and while she’d laugh...
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 even missing teeth. Teeth that look so rotten that they look completely beyond...
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