Patiently

  A week ago, we attended an AWANA fun fair with our three children following a year of working to memorize bible verses.  If you quizzed them now, they would not likely recall every verse, but would at least be familiar with most of them.  So the fair was filled...

Holy Week

When you hear the phrase Holy Week, what comes to mind? You might think it is the week leading up to Easter Sunday, and you would be correct, but do you celebrate in any special way through the week?  If you are like me, you may only have heard of or attended a Good...

Spring Fever

Living in Iowa, you think we would get used to things changing all the time, but there is still a feeling of excitement to it.  Maybe it is the desire to be done with strings of cold days or the occasional snowfall, but by March, we are usually excited for Spring to...

Life Lessons

    Here is a photo of my father holding me sitting beside my older brother from a time I don’t even remember.  Yesterday was my dad’s birthday and while he passed away over 6 years ago, I spent a couple hours on the phone talking to my older brother,...

By Default?

If you say you are, how do you know you are a Christian?  If you grew up in a church and still attend there, that may make you one by default.  Maybe your parents were lifelong church people, and you attended as a child, so that makes you a Christian.  Or maybe you...