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Does your home feel crammed with possessions? Does your life feel overstuffed with obligations? Perhaps you need to begin the process of decluttering your life. It’s easy to accumulate stuff. The pair of jeans that hasn’t fit since before baby number two. The bridesmaid dress…
Advent is a waiting season. A time of waiting for Jesus. Two thousand years ago, the nation of Israel was waiting for the fulfillment of the promises for a Savior. They had been waiting for thousands of years. But there was one man who probably was…
Advent is a season of waiting. We remember the world’s long wait for a Savior and we anticipate Jesus’ second return. Often we focus more on the remembering part. Advent means setting up manger scenes, sending out Christmas cards with pictures of Baby Jesus, and…
Advent is a season of waiting. A time of anticipation. A period of preparation. For many in our culture, the preparation for Christmas is limited to planning get-togethers and buying gifts. Children anticipate opening those gifts. Everyone is waiting for holiday programs, plays, and parties.…
How do you deal with unmet desires? Those longings you’ve held for years? Those empty places in your heart that never seem filled? It turns out those unmet desires can be a key to spiritual growth. It’s a lesson I learned on a shopping trip.…
More than 500 years ago Martin Luther nailed 95 Thesis to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany. And we might be thinking, “So what?” Luther himself probably did not realize the importance of this simple act. The church door in a German town was like…
Are you in a period of suffering? A time of questions without answers? The book The Louder Song meets readers in the pain and ache of life. It answers the question of what to do when you’re in a period of Suffering and Not Yet.…
The book All Shall Be Well serves as a perfect companion to my year of aiming to notice God. At the beginning of 2019, I chose the word “notice” as my word of the year, hoping against hope that focusing on this act of noticing…
“Don’t do it,” I told myself as I started down the basement stairs. “Don’t do it,” I repeated as I walked toward the shelf where my secret stash sat. “Don’t do it,” I said again, as I opened the container. But I did it. I…