Let’s pray for our church family as we approach Mother’s Day.  Mother’s Day is a complicated day. Not everyone is able to celebrate it with abandon.  On the one hand, Mother’s Day is a day of celebration for many women and families; at the same time, there are multiple reasons...

I had the opportunity to attend a ministry conference for Children’s Pastors this past week. I enjoy these types of events because they are high energy, offer meaningful worship experiences, and I often walk away with some great ideas, principles, and resources to implement. This particular conference also provided the...

Did I ever tell you about the time I attended a rodeo as a bull rider? For exactly one semester, I lived with a rodeo guy. He was a great friend, but we were pretty different. I grew up out in the country, but rodeo wasn’t something we did. My...

Jesus paid it all. There is such relief in those words. In a world where we are always stretched and trying to make ends meet—whether it is time commitments, energy depletion, mental bandwidth, or financial strains—I find it refreshing to repeat those words. Jesus paid it all. His sixth saying...

Do you ever struggle with finishing what you start? Maybe it’s a project or something on your “honey do” list. After a long day or week of work, it is so easy for these tasks to be put on the backburner. If you’re like many people, you might even have...