In less than a year from now, my “little girl” will be heading off to college. I can’t believe that day is drawing near so quickly. As I was looking at my schedule for this year, I decided I couldn’t waste these precious months I have with Hannah still in our home. So, I decided it was important to put a regular date night with her on my calendar. Now, I still intend to keep a weekly date night with my wife, Heather...
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“Do you hear what I hear?” Those are words from a popular Christmas carol. They remind me of a great blog I read recently from Rev. Dr. Dale Meyer, President of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He wrote the following on November 13th, 2014: “Pay attention to what you hear,” says Jesus in Mark 4:24. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, and my reflections tell me that one reason many people find Christianity...
Last year at this time I wrote about the blessings of our VBS (Vacation Bible School) week here at Faith Lutheran. I noted that it was “music to my ears” when several children asked me for a Bible of their own. Today I have to follow up with MORE “music to my ears.” This morning as I was chatting with several of our VBS kids, I recognized one of them as a girl who asked me for a Bible last year. Before I could say...
The church building was shut down this past Monday and Tuesday due to a storm and power outage. I worked at home those two days. You’d think this would have yielded some quality time with my family. Sadly, this didn’t work out. I was so busy calling people to cancel events, reschedule activities, beg the power company to have mercy on us, etc. etc., that I probably spent LESS time with my family than usual … even though...