How do you celebrate Christmas? What are your family’s traditions? (I have tradition that may shock you.) We open one gift on Christmas Eve, which is always fresh new pj’s. The kids dive into their stockings while we drink our coffee and wake up, and we wrap everything in those stockings so it takes a LOOOONNNNNGGGGG time. We read the Christmas ...
As we head in to the most chaotic (er, I mean wonderful) time of the year, let's take a moment to reflect on these truths before we get carried away. Blessings... ...
I saw a post on Facebook today that bothered me, and it was from a Christian counseling page. The question wouldn’t send most people over the edge, but it really got my pet-peeve-indicator on full tilt. “Do you want to fall in love with your spouse again?” It seems harmless, right? Even like a good thing. But it’s so misleading…. As pastors, my ...
I slept fitfully off and on all night. At 3:30 am I woke up in a panic from a dream I was having. I finally got back to sleep, only to wake up again at 6:30 am. Ugh! I could have slept in. It was Saturday, and I didn’t have to get up and out the door early for once. I ...
Seven deaths. Seven deaths in two weeks. My husband and I are pastors, and in the last two weeks alone, we’ve experienced seven deaths around us. Five church members and two in the lives of friends. That’s a lot of funerals. That’s a lot of sadness. Even for an emotionally and spiritually strong person, that’s a hard pill to swallow. Performing ...