Mother’s Day is coming to an end as I write this blog post. I spent some time with a good friend over the weekend, and observed her devotion to her daughters: three year-old twins and a six-month old. She gives her time, energy, creativity, wisdom, patience and love to her…
Read moreI have been thinking lately about God’s plan for our lives as I read Spiritual Leadership, by Henry Blackaby. It is an insightful book on how to lead, how to plan, how to relate to others, and how to relate to God. The subtitle is, Moving People Onto God’s Agenda. …
Read more“Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here, while I go over there and pray.’ And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled… ‘Watch and pray that you may not…
Read moreI don’t know if you’re like me or not, but I tend to easily get bogged down in the here and now. Whatever is going on in my life at the moment, in the life of our church members, in my sons’ lives, on campus, takes a lot of my…
Read moreThere is a Big Daddy Weave song I really like – My Story. He sings “if I told you my story you would hear hope, that never let go… if I told you my story, you would hear love, that never gave up . . . And if I…
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