God’s Plan for 2020

Today is the day many of us make resolutions for the new year. Some of these plans won’t make it to the end the week, while others may be life changing. I’ve certainly made both sorts of New Year’s resolutions. I have had some big successes, such as losing over a...

More than a Day

Christmas at my house has a shelf life of about two days. Christmas day is full of excitement, as our children are often out of bed and bubbling over with excitement around 4:30am (new rule: no waking up mom and dad before 6am, or there will be no presents until after...

The Gift: Jesus is Our King

I’ll admit, I’m not that into Christmas music. There are some Christmas songs I love, and others I could survive without (looking at you Mariah Carey!). One of the songs on my naughty list is We Three Kings of Orient Are. I’m a stickler for biblical...

Let Me Get Closer!

I used to help organize an event featuring a major Christian recording artist. Every year I would have many people pleading with me for special access to this famous individual. When I would explain that was not possible, as the artist’s contract was very specific on...

Living with Spiritual Maturity

My in-laws are currently here in Nicaragua for their first visit. It’s also their first visit to Latin America and to a developing country. This Sunday we took them to our church, which is a large Spanish speaking congregation here in Managua. We were a little...