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Pause Button, Please!!

December 14, 2018 • Parenting, Speaking, Teen Events

Pause Button, Please! Several Christmases ago, I was watching Christmas movies with my kids and was struck with the fact that my middle son, Jake, then 12, would only have 6 more Christmases living in our home.  Time flies when…


He is comfortable with His decisions

December 10, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Parenting

How many times have you said something like, “let me be the bad guy” or “I am comfortable with my decision” to one of your children? More times than I can count, Brian and I have said something along these…


We Will Not be Shaken

December 7, 2018 • Ministries, Parenting, Teen Events

Dear friends and partners, Merry, Merry Christmas to you!  As I write you this beautiful morning, I have a fire in the fireplace, coffee in hand, and you on my heart! I pray that 2018 has been a year of…


Linger at the Manger

December 5, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Parenting

As we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the beauty and innocence of imagining an encounter with that heavenly baby boy brings joy and peace beyond description.  When I imagine the shepherds as they bowed before the King of Kings nestled…


Purpose for Your Life-Part 2

November 30, 2018 • Ministries, Parenting, Speaking

Purpose for Your Life- Part 2 We have been talking about purpose and understanding that purpose is not a destination, but it is the process, the daily journey. As you continue to walk in your purpose today, here are a…


Purpose for Your Life- Part 1

November 28, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Speaking

Purpose for Your Life- Part 1 “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.[b] 4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him,…


Happy Thanksgiving

November 20, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Parenting

I am praying that you are excited about a wonderful holiday season.  I love Thanksgiving so.  I think anytime I have the opportunity to be with family and friends I feel so blessed.  I love relationship more than anything.  I…


Overcoming Your Past-Part 2

November 15, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Speaking

I know that all of you are running your race. I know that your heart is to chase hard after the Lord. I know that you want to pursue the passion that He has placed in your heart. Yet, I…


Overcoming Your Past- Part 1

November 13, 2018 • Community, Speaking, Women's Events

“Is not this the fast that I choose; to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6 I really believe the Lord intends…


Counter Culture

November 8, 2018 • Ministries, Parenting, Teens

  “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.  A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord[a]; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.[b] 4 Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the…

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