Not only is it Advent, but we are also right in the middle of card season as well.  Whether or not you regularly write a Christmas letter or send many cards out, surely you receive a few in the mail or by email each year.  Do you take the time to read each one?  With...

I have a 5 week old little girl Eliana.  She is beautiful and loud. When she is hungry we will know it and so will the neighbors.  This week Johna (my wife) took our two older kids to school and left the baby with me.  The moment she pulled out of the driveway, Eliana...

I’ll be the first to admit that I don't have the world’s greatest attention span. Sometimes I’m a little bit like the dog in Disney’s Up, constantly distracted by squirrels and basically everything besides the thing I am to be focused on. While I tended to do well in...

Numbers 24:17New Living Translation (NLT) 17 I see him, but not here and now.     I perceive him, but far in the distant future. A star will rise from Jacob;     a scepter will emerge from Israel. It will crush the heads of Moab’s people,     cracking the skulls[a] of...

Matthew 1:18New Living Translation (NLT) The Birth of Jesus the Messiah 18 This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the...

Ephesians 4:1,2 (NKJV) I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, My truck is adorned in signage for Back 40...

What is on your wish list?  Maybe you have matured from the time you were 10 and actually have less desire for a list of ‘things’ as an adult.  Or maybe just having good health and keeping your two front teeth is not such a far-fetched wish as it once was in song. ...