Luke 2:49-50 “Why were you searching for me? he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they [Mary and Joseph] did not understand what He was saying to them. Ministry is really hard. Even when things are not “ministry” I have a tough time…
Read more“Mike? Will you go outside and put the birdseed into the feeder for me?” I called from the kitchen. After exhausting every excuse he could invent (oh the joys of parenting teens;) He tromped outside (in shorts and his tennis shoes, in Michigan in the middle of winter…in the snow)…
Read moreI guess you would consider me a rotten mommy because I absolutely can’t stand to play trucks or army men or dolls or play pretend. I never enjoyed it as a kid and it is certainly something I don’t enjoy now. After the guilt of not “playing” with the kids…
Read more“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 “Mommy, come sit and play ‘ding dong’ with me. You be Rose and I’ll be Mack.” These words echoed from my little man who will be four in…
Read moreBut the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Romans 5:15 A good friend of…
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