We Need a Little Joy
What is Joy? Has everyone turned in their Christmas lists to the grandparents yet? Everyone updated their Amazon wish list? There’s only 21 more shopping days until Christmas! It seems…
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We Need a Little Hope
Hope + Expectation How many of you already have your Christmas decorations up? I think all the stores had the Christmas stuff on display as soon as Halloween was over….
The 4 Cups of Passover: Gratitude for the Bread of Christ and the Cup of Salvation
Gratitude + Communion My friend Jon Grottis once said, “Gratitude is like a mosaic. If you step back and look at it you see the face of God. When we…
Why Expressing Gratitude for One Another Matters
Let us be grateful It’s November which means thanksgiving is coming! This year we’ve got family coming to our house for Thanksgiving. Each year at Thanksgiving our family shares why…
Gratitude: Jesus + the Power of Giving Thanks
The Discipline of Gratitude It’s about this time every year that you start to see more and more people talking about what they’re grateful for, about the things in their…
Giving, Worry, and God
Worry Much? How much would you give to God if you were not worried about money? Can I make a confession, from time to time, I worry about money. I’m…
Are You Rich?
What does it mean to be truly rich? A few weeks ago I had a Saturday where I got to spend almost the entire day with my daughters. Alisha and…
God of Abundance
If I could just have… The great theologian Janis Joplin who once sang… Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amendsWorked…
Generous Giving + 3 Guiding Questions
Giving with Open Hands What happens when we are generous? When our generosity signals our readiness and expectation for God to move? When I was growing up our family went…