Do you find yourself with a look on your face like you’ve been sucking on lemons all day? Do you hear yourself say really positive things but in an almost Eeyore-like voice? I find myself here sometimes. How do we break out of the doldrums and embrace the joy that God provides in our lives?…
Following Christ needs to be a consuming endeavor. It is easy for us to compartmentalize our lives. We have our church selves, our home selves, and our work selves and if we are not careful, we can develop different habits and actions in each environment. In this paradigm, it is easy to confine God into…
Having a great family life looks effortless from the outside, but it takes a lot of effort to create an environment where your family thrives. A lot of times we get it backward and try to impress others at the expense of those closest to us. Instead, let’s be mindful of the incredible trust that…
Are you in a funk? We all have days where nothing seems to go right, but sometimes those days combine and multiply to create a season of struggle. Do you feel like the simplest things take an extreme amount of effort to accomplish? These times of our lives wear us down and we begin to…
I remember watching a cartoon with my kids about a certain handyman and his talking tools. Each day they would approach a different problem and if you could break it, they could fix it. This handy man always knew what it would take to get the job done and more importantly, he always had the…
How can we know? I’ve been pondering the words of a leper for the last week. In Matthew 8:2 a man whose body is wracked with leprosy comes to Jesus and says “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean”. Can you imagine? No hope, no cure, just a simple belief that this…