Sunday Service Thoughts: Taking Up Our Cross – Singleness or Marriage

This morning’s church service was very thought-provoking. Pastor J.D. interviewed Patricia McLaughlin, author of the book “Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion”. There were several things that stood out to me in the conversation as they discussed the relevance of Christianity to contemporary culture. One was the comments about singleness, and …

Be Different; Be Like Daniel

Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, was our first time back in corporate worship at our church since lockdowns began over a year ago. Our church has had in-person services for a few months, but we just had not made the effort to return. Things are a little different – we have to “sign-in”, socially distance, and …

Scripture Writing & Sketch Notes

This past year has been hard for me spiritually and creatively. Although my family has been faring well with jobs and health, the upheaval, stress and uncertainty has drained my creative juices. I lack inspiration to produce art, but I have been spending more time reading my Bible and scripture writing. Scripture writing is something …

Maybe the Whole Point is Turning the Hearts of Parents to their Children

More people are homeschooling now than ever before. Others are schooling at home through their school system’s virtual school. Some are doing a combo of in-classroom and remote learning. Homeschooling is hard.Virtual school at home is hard.Rotating your kids in and out of school is hard. I know some of you are struggling more than …

Don’t Be Discouraged

I thought I’d start bringing you along on my personal bible study, and share some of the gems that I find in God’s Word. I am not as consistent as I’d like to be, but am feeling especially convicted these days to be diligent and more disciplined in spending time with God. . When I …

Creative Bible Journaling

A few years ago, with only one teenager left at home, I realized that now was the “someday” I had been talking about when I said, “Someday I will do such and such” or “Someday I will have time for xyz again”. The art supplies that had been sitting in boxes in the closet, the …