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When Everything Clicks!
Scripture
Genesis 1:31 — "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good."
There was this moment two summers ago when everything just... clicked.
Tom and I went to visit his brother and sister-in-law at their home at Bass Lake. I ...
Unconscious Bias Quiz: A Quiet Check-In With Ourselves
We like to think we see the world clearly. That we’re fair, open-minded, and without prejudice. But if we’re honest? All of us carry biases we don’t even realize are there. They creep in through the culture we grew up in, the stories we’ve been ...
The Hidden Stones We Throw
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" - Matthew 7:3
Saturday at King Canary, seven-year-old boys threw rocks at strangers on a deck. When corrected, one child's ...
Accountability, Yet Love!
Scripture: Proverbs 27:6 — “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.”
One of the trickiest, biggest tensions I live with is working alongside Layne. She’s my daughter — which means there’s a deep love, a ...
Move Toward The person You’d Rather Avoid
Scripture: “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.” — Luke 6:32–35
We all have ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – Recalculating, Not Shaming!
Scripture
Joel 2:12 — "Return to me with all your heart, declares the Lord."
When I first began ministry in this area 20+ years ago, GPS in our cars and on our phones was not a thing.
So, my senior pastor became my GPS.
We ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – The Love that Creates Love
Scripture
1 John 4:19 — "We love because God first loved us."
Here's what I've noticed about hesed: it's contagious.
When you're really loved — I mean held in fierce-tender-loyal-never-giving-up love — it changes how you love everyone ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – The Fight in Love
Scripture
Psalm 23:4 — "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."
One day, in third grade, Layne came home from school in tears. A group of girls had been systematically ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – When Loyalty Doesn’t Make Sense!
Scripture
Hosea 3:1 — "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites."
Sometimes God asks prophets to do weird things. Ezekiel had to lie on his side ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION – It Doesn’t Fit in a Teacup!
Scripture
Psalm 136:1 — "Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good. God's hesed endures forever."
Soul Creations had a pop-up in Davidson a few weeks ago, and we were going to introduce our new “Teacup Bouquets.” As soon as Dawn got the ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Scripture
James 1:19 — "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."
Years ago I was rushing through the kitchen, mentally rehearsing Sunday’s message while grabbing Diet Mtn. Dew, when my daughter appeared ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Scripture Proverbs 18:21 — "The tongue has the power of life and death."
Post-divorce, LOTS of people had LOTS of opinions about my entering the dating world.
One gentleman was obsessed (using that word correctly, here) with the question, ...
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