Last year we had a reporter from a local newspaper come over to talk about the challenges of the holidays for special-needs families. She asked good questions: “What do you do differently because of your son’s sensory issues?” “What’s hard about being out of his routine?” And my favorite, “What advice would you give to…
If I were Jesus, most of the miracles would have been fun for me to experience. Feeding 5,000+. Healing the bleeding woman who had suffered for years. Walking on water. But one would have been especially tough—the healing of the pouter. Jesus had been welcomed into the home of Mary and Martha and was enjoying time…
James turned eight last week. His birthday always makes me feel reflective and thankful for how far he’s come. This year we decided to celebrate by inviting his special-needs classmates over along with a couple families from the church we are attending. As we plant Journey Church, we want to be intentional about inviting and…
I don’t know if it’s possible to cram more into one month than we did in August! We moved into our new house, Lee started a new job (and had to take an insurance license exam that he studied for every night), James started school, I was in North Carolina for a few days, David…
There are two dangers in regard to spiritual warfare: to disregard it totally or to obsess over it. I tend to be in the first camp and disregard it. So I looked for a book on the topic recommended by pastors I respect and found Spiritual Warfare: A Biblical and Balanced Perspective. I picked a…
The future missionaries we went to seminary with had a unique quality: they felt a calling to a people group or to a specific place. Before they left the states, they studied the language and got to know the customs of the people they were going to live among. They made strategic plans to be at…