The Lord is my Constant Companion

      Each week we are featuring a prayer that sets an example for the answered prayer we are emphasizing. This week we’ve got a prayer, based on the 23rd Psalm, which is called: The Lord is my Constant Companion. I invite you to make this prayer yours as you ask for God to give you peace.

Raising kids is a lot like negotiating with terrorists.

    Trying to work things out with your children, helping them see that you’ve got to work out a balance between everything you need to get done versus everything they want to get (and get done). Even teenagers who understand this are always trying to tip the scale in their favor. They can be relentless.  Raising kids is a lot like negotiating with terrorists.

Who Cleans Your Classroom?

This last Sunday in my sermon, I talked about how looking at life through the lens of Jesus Christ changes the way we see the hierarchies and pecking orders our society lives by.  The cross shatters the labels we use: achievers vs. slackers, brilliant minds vs. not the sharpest tools in the shed; winners vs. losers.  The ways of God are not our ways, and the Biblical witness is that those the world overlooks are very often the ones God uses to bring attention to His power and wisdom.

This is an illustration I came across last week. I was preaching about how the gospel of Jesus Christ shows up in so many of our great stories.  The gospel is about what God has done for us—all that we cannot and could not do for ourselves—has been done through the death and resurrection of Jesus.  It is good news—it is joyous news.  Talk about joyous news…Ice Cream is good for you!  Even if we don’t know why.