2 Corinthians 5:17-19 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not […]
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Young Love Letters – part 23
It worked out that I was able to take one week off from camp that summer to attend the national FCM conference which was being held in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the first time. Ked made the drive up north to pick me up for the week, and my parents would be meeting us at […]
Expecting
** This is a book review and give away! I just thought I should make that clear before rumors started circulating the internets that I was pregnant or something! I’m thrilled to offer a copy of Marla Taviano‘s beautiful book Expecting: Praying for your child’s development – body and soul. From the back cover: Just […]
Re-imagining Influence
My mother-in-law gave shared a bit of personal history with me the other day that got me thinking about the influence we have in other people’s lives. Very early in their ministry a pastor in Lansing heard of them and in her words “took a chance” and invited their puppet ministry to do a week […]
Love by Pizza
I was helping my children out of their car seats when he approached me in the parking lot of a busy strip mall. His graying hair hung haphazardly across his forehead, his clothes slightly wrinkled. What struck me most was his nervous demeanor, almost as if he was terrified to say what he was about […]
Love Under the Hood of my Car
I peered out the front windows, ivory sheers in right hand, forehead furrowed. In the street my tan car sat forlorn and sick. Wide shoulders hunched over inspecting, replacing, fixing. Hydraulics long gone, a jug of windshield fluid held the hood open. He should have been somewhere else. But he’d answered my distress call. Like […]