Once as a youth minister, I stood before the group with a prize of candy bars. Then I explained the game for the evening. Easter was approaching and I had hidden 10 empty eggs throughout the youth building. The middle schoolers went racing — though I was diligent in hiding — they soon had every […]
Read more "Purpose"A Texas company wants to resurrect woolly mammoths… didn’t they see Jurassic Park? Plus, we can’t keep species off the endangered list (polar bears!), do we really want to add more? This morning we were running late. I had E at the table, breakfast set before him. “Quick, we need to eat…”, as I ran […]
Read more "Sit Still!"Yesterday E’s class had a bulldog party (they earn letters for good behavior). Their party was a day to dress up in costumes. E wanted to wear his Spiderman costume. It has big muscles and buttons with web slinging sound effects. Only E has been growing… and is too big to be Spidey. So earlier […]
Read more "Rest"This morning I took the kids to donuts. We got dressed early. We delivered chocolate long johns to Meg at work. We remembered bags, drinks, lunches, masks, even picture day (Darcy did her own hair, which is better… Dad is still not up to the task!), and we made it to school a bit early. […]
Read more "REAL"“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.” 2Timothy 3:1 The passage for Sunday begins with this phrase, “last days”. Reading the passage it is apparent that Paul is not talking about a distant future moment. He is talking the present. Understanding how the Bible defines “last days” is important. NT […]
Read more "We are in the Last Days (But so was the early church!)"
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