Our Lord, our marriage, and our children, each in ministry to each other.
One year while I was growing up my parents attempted to enforce a “Thank You Jar.” Throughout the year, whenever something happened that me or my siblings were (or should be) thankful for, we were to write it down on a piece of paper and drop it in the “Thank You Jar.” A couple notes were…
Read MoreWith the holiday season here, I have been thinking a lot on how we are going to teach our kids the meaning of Thanksgiving and Christmas instead of just getting all wrapped up in all the distractions the holiday season provides. Maybe I’m a little cynical after the 2012 elections and all the Facebook…
Read MoreFor the past year or so Dana and I have been realizing that the stories we believe really shape us, our decisions, our values, what we place our hope in, everything about us. Because of this, we’ve been trying to be intentional about what stories we expose our children to…
Read MoreFor years I worked in churches and spent an enormous amount of time strategizing and executing the ministry’s vision for discipleship. Teams of us would think hard and deep about our vision, where God wanted to take us, and how He wanted to take us there. Teams of us…
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