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…
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…
Fist bump to the boys for one good Easter picture! Wahoo! Can’t wait to have all three of my boys in matching shirts next year. David promises me one more year of compliance. Fist bump to James for graduating to a booster seat in the car! He’s only tried to get out of it…
Enjoying eggs with no cheese, grapefruit with no sugar, and plain water instead of tea with sugar and milk. Lee and I are starting the Whole 30 way of eating today. We don’t really want to lose weight, we just want to feel better, and we hope doing it together will help us stick to…
As I continue to pray for my church leading up to Easter, today I’m praying for our pastors. This prayer is by Teri Lynne Underwood from Prayers from the Pews. Prayer That Your Pastors Will Boldly Proclaim the Word The Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people,…