This is the first day of my current series, From Hurting to Hopeful: The Path of Peter. You can still sign up here if you want to receive future devotions! The question Peter asked at the first Lord’s Supper is one we may still be asking now. Our family is currently church planting outside of…
I’m putting the final touches on our study leading up to Easter—From Hurting to Hopeful: The Path of Peter. We’ll eat with him at the Passover meal. We’ll climb the Mount of Olives. We’ll turn our heads in shame when we hear the rooster crow for the third time. We’ll feel all the hurt…
Even from a very young age, my son David (now 11) has been dramatic, empathetic, and entertaining. “He’d make a great preacher, like his dad!” people would tell us after meeting him or seeing him perform on stage in a play without any stage fright. (He doesn’t even get the concept of stage fright—”It’s just…
Nothing brings hope to the hurting like the Easter story. Every year when it comes around, I feel myself exhale. I remember I’m not the only one walking a hard road. I think about the characters we meet and how their life experiences brought them to the place they were at the end of Jesus’s…
I’ve created a daily planner printable you’ll want to use along with our #abidein2017 series and book! And here’s my favorite part: Focus on Fifteen I believe there are fifteen minutes in your day that are the most important. They break down to three, five-minute segments. For me it includes when I take my…
I don’t want to go into 2017 with the same negative thought patterns I’ve struggled with in years past. Colossians chapter 3 talks about taking off the old self and putting on the new self. “In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all…