Backpacks, schoolbooks, iPads, lunches, tennis shoes, gym clothes, fees for sports and other extracurricular activities, field trips, shopping for school clothes, “Who’s my teacher going to be this year?” and the list goes on and on! Gone are the “relaxing” days of summer. No more last-minute family fun days to the lake or pool, fishing,…
Category: Faith
College Relationships
Are you a student about to head off to college? (Or a parent about to see your baby go off to college?) Do you want to see your faith not just survive in this new stage of life, but thrive? You may ask, what is the most important thing to my faith, and the answer…
Prophecy
When I was a kid, I grew up in a church that frequently spoke about prophecy. We had prophecy weekends, special prophecy speakers and prophecy studies. The teaching and studies about prophecy always related to the events around the second coming of Jesus and almost always included charts, graphs, specific fulfillment dates and predictions related…
Community
When I was growing up in south Minneapolis, my family knew everyone living on our block and many near our home. During the summers, we kids played outside all day long and into the night. One of our favorite games was kick the can. As families, we would have picnics with others living on our…
Hope and Healing
Started back in 1991 by John Baker at Saddleback Church in California, Celebrate Recovery has grown to over 30,000 churches and 20 languages! It’s in over 32 countries and in prisons as well. This program/ministry really works. The CR curriculum is based on the actual words of Jesus, is biblically balanced and proven effective in…