Year: 2020
Not By My Own Understanding

Not By My Own Understanding

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)OBSERVE Trusting someone can be so hard. Especially when you are trusting them with your present,...

Adoption

Adoption

Adoption brings up mixed emotions. The term “adopted” can be used to show affection or insult. Our understanding of adoption comes from our picture of family. Many times we have a picture of family that limits our understanding of the truth of adoption. In this...

Kids Experience May 24

Kids Experience May 24

We can trust God. This week we hear how Stephen was DETERMINED. But we will see that he trusted God. He decided to stand strong in what he believed.  We don’t always know how things will turn out. Sometimes we feel stuck because we feel like life just isn’t going our...

Gray Night of the Soul

Gray Night of the Soul

Gray Night of the Soul I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33   Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “In a real dark night of the soul, it...

Celebrate Recovery – May 21

Celebrate Recovery – May 21

Admit it – you’re here now because you forgot to watch at 7 on Thursday night! Or maybe, you were worried about being seen watching on Thursday night.  If it’s the former, no worries, that’s why we make these available. If the latter – still no worries, but let me ask...

Faith Over Fear: How to Help Your Child Deal with Anxiety

Faith Over Fear: How to Help Your Child Deal with Anxiety

ne of the most important things we can teach our children is that their strength comes from Christ, while fear is from the enemy. 2 Timothy 1:7  While this is true, fear and caution in children is normal and expected, particularly during stressful...

Set Free

Set Free

"So again, I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law or by your believing what you heard? So also Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." Galatians 3:5-6 "Therefore, there is now no condemnation...

A Good Old Age

A Good Old Age

Family involves many times and seasons of life. Our roles within our family change, but each role and each season is part of God's plan for family. If we're fortunate, one day we'll find ourselves in the last season - Old Age. While this is a season some of us would...

Kids Experience May 17

Kids Experience May 17

They were able to have determination Peter and John saw many things and they went back to their friends and told them about everything God had done. Lots of people who had seen the healed man and heard Peter’s message about Jesus put their faith in Him. The number of...

Both-And

Both-And

Both-And We don’t know what to do; but our eyes are on you. 2 Chronicles 20:12    ialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a cognitive-behavioral treatment developed in the 1980’s to treat people who experience extremely intense, negative emotion....

Celebrate Recovery May 14

Celebrate Recovery May 14

Admit it – you’re here now because you forgot to watch at 7 on Thursday night! Or maybe, you were worried about being seen watching on Thursday night.  If it’s the former, no worries, that’s why we make these available. If the latter – still no worries, but let me ask...

Jesus Paid It All

Jesus Paid It All

The Origin StoryOriginally an ancient Latin text, O Come O Come Emmanuel celebrates the promise of a Savior that is foretold in the book of Isaiah, “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will...

Parenting During A Crisis

Parenting During A Crisis

hen I was in tenth grade, my family’s life changed overnight. We were missionaries in a county in Africa when a civil war broke out. Rebel soldiers were advancing on the capital city where we lived, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their...

The Burden I Give You is Light

The Burden I Give You is Light

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the...

Parenting

Parenting

We’ve all had parents. They’re responsible for at least some part of shaping how we got to where we are today. And our different kinds of experiences with parents have affected our thoughts on parenting. But what if we could broaden our idea of what it means to be a...

Kids Experience – May 10

Kids Experience – May 10

The Spirit helps us have determination It isn’t always easy to live God’s way. God knew that we would need help, so He gave us the Holy Spirit. When things get tough, we don’t have to rely on ourselves. When we believe and put our faith in Jesus, we receive the gift...

Free Will

Free Will

Admit it – you’re here now because you forgot to watch at 7 on Thursday night! Or maybe, you were worried about being seen watching on Thursday night.  If it’s the former, no worries, that’s why we make these available. If the latter – still no worries, but let me ask...

Legacy

Legacy

Legacy I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever. Psalm 45:17   n the flower bed next to my front walkway grow several red primroses. These hardy flowers bloom in the spring...

Celebrate Recovery – May 7

Celebrate Recovery – May 7

We are “those people.”  If you’re a regular CR attendee, you laugh at that.  It’s a reference we hear about ourselves from those outside the ministry who believe that we are a bunch of messed up people who need to go to a 12 step recovery program because we’ve lost...

We Do Not Know Him

We Do Not Know Him

“Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him. Nor can the number of His years be discovered.” Job 36:26 (NKJV) Observation Job is thought to be the oldest book in the Bible by many scholars and tells the story of a man who remains faithful to God despite losing...

In Sickness and in Health

In Sickness and in Health

It’s rare to find a really great marriage. Maybe that’s because it doesn’t take long for marriage to be put to the test by the harsh realities of life. In marriage, we’re together in sickness and in health. God designed marriage as a gift. And it’s easy to lose sight...