My oldest son has three loves in his life: Jesus, football, and running….in that order. I know I’m on the list there somewhere too…but let’s be honest. Right after Jesus, it’s football. And he played football at school for 3 years. It was always the highlight of his summer. It started with conditioning. Then light practices. Then two-a-days. Then game ...
Some days I wake up, and it’s great. I have a verse in my head or a song rolling around in my heart. I’m happy from the minute I wake up and I get joyfully out of bed at 5 AM (without an alarm…I just wake up) and glide gracefully down the stairs to the kitchen and start the process ...
Stress. It’s the exertion or weight you put on something, like bridges, airplanes, humans. We can only take so much of it before we break. Stressful situations come. It’s our choice how we respond to them. Jesus said over and over. Don’t worry. Don’t be anxious. Don’t let your heart be troubled. It’s our choice what we do with stress. Whether ...
Jesus told us in Mark 11 to “walk with Me, work with Me, and watch how I do it….that’s how you’ll find real rest.” I don’t know about you, but I could use some rest in this hectic season of my life, so I started searching through the gospels and “watching how He does it.” As I studied Jesus, I ...
Jesus said in Matthew 11:28-30 in The Message Translation, “I’ll show you how to take a real rest..walk with Me, work with Me, watch how I do it.” Well….life has been happening at such a rapid pace that I’ve been on a quest for rest lately. A quest for balance. And that phrase intrigued me. I kept thinking about it. ...