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  • My Bible Reading Plan for 2025 (and why you should make one too)

     “Mark this well for a new year: your desires, good and bad, are not givens. Now, you may not, in the moment, simply be able to will yourself into some specific delight, or disgust, but you can retrain your palate over time. In fact, with each passing day, you’re either solidifying and deepening your heart…

  • Advent Guide 2024

    “Yes, the manger signals something about this baby, but it is not simply his poverty. By being placed in the manger, he is revealed as both the rightful son of Adam charged with caring for his creation and also the eternal Son of God who created them and who provides for them. So instead of…

  • Tips for an Intentional Summer

    We’ve been in the summer mode for a few weeks now since we ended homeschool at the beginning of May, but I’ve been thinking alot about the concept of using my summer wisely. What does it mean to steward what I’ve been given and use this next season intentionally? I wanted to share with you…

  • Easter Guide 2024

    Top 3 Family Recommendations Who is Jesus? 40 Pictures to Share with Your Family This beautiful book is one your entire family of all ages can learn from and enjoy together. I would recommend reading through it the entire 40 days of Lent. Easter Blocks by the GoodKind “Slow down and reflect during Holy Week…

  • Time

    “Behold, I am coming soon. Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.” Revelation 22:7, 11 Did you know there’s a list of the things that run out at the end of the book of Revelation? For the believer…

  • My Bible Reading Plan for 2024 (and why you should make one too)

    As we wrap up a month of Christmas traditions and Advent studies, I think many people enter a new year already feeling tired. We did all the gift buying and holiday planning, all the food prep and family traditions, all the decorations and outings. Lots of us have probably already packed away the tree and…

  • Advent Reflections

    Advent Reflections

    For 400 years the people of God had waited. “There were no visions, no prophets, no word from Yahweh, only rituals and routines to maintain a connection to the Lord.” Sacrifice after sacrifice, feast after feast, offering after offering, year after year. Could God not have come after 100 years? Or maybe 150? Surely at…

  • Advent Guide 2022

    “If you’re physically starving, you will groan, but spiritual starvation will make you groan too. So here’s the good news of the Christmas story: the birth of Jesus is an invitation to the best, most satisfying dinner ever.” –Paul Tripp The purpose of this Advent Guide is not to provide a complete list of resources (there…

  • 5 Ideas for Hospitality & Holiday Outreach

    1. Soup & Sandwich Luncheon I first heard the concept of a “standing invite” from Rosaria Butterfield, one of today’s leading voices for Christian hospitality. A standing invite is simply an invitation into a rhythm that occurs at the same time each week or month (think every Friday night or the first Monday of the…

  • 25 Fall Recipes

    “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.” -Steven Covey Breakfast Half Baked Harvest Pumpkin Coffee Cake Muffins Sally’s Baking Addiction Pumpkin French Toast Casserole Oatmeal Apple…