What Are You Looking For (REALLY)?
This is an Important Question This past Sunday was Women’s Sunday at church and the women in our church lead the service. Charlotte Yinakopolis-Veatch gave the message. Charlotte said that when she was asked her initial response was, “No, not me, I’m not qualified. I’ve made mistakes and not done everything right. My life has […]
Don’t Make Things More Complicated Than They Need to Be
The Simple Thing We Did That Turned Our Finances Around Last week, I discussed the question: How Do We Know What to Do? This came up while we were struggling with building a new business coaching and consulting website. I shared how I’ve been working on building the coaching and consulting business over the past […]
We All Need a Good Cleaning
The Hope for Messy People The past several weeks we’ve been discussing the messy Corinthians and Paul pointing out their messiness. They had all kinds of disagreements about which spiritual gifts were more important, family disputes, church leadership, etc. Paul pointed out to them that they needed to clean up their messes. We are still […]
How Do We Know What to Do?
Wouldn’t It Be Nice If We Could Tell the Future? We’ve been working on a new website for our coaching and consulting business. This whole coaching and consulting thing is different than construction. I’m struggling to know what exactly it should include and how to say it clearly. I want this website to explain how […]
The Greatest of These is Love
Now If We Were Just Better At It As we continue through 1 Corinthians this week, Pastor Lisa’s message was about love from Chapter 13, Verses 1-13. She shared that in the English language we use the word love to mean multiple different things. We love our spouse, we love our families, we love our […]
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
But I Don’t Want To! We like the warm, safe feeling of our comfort zone. A comfort zone is a safe space where we don’t take risks, but we also don’t grow. It’s not simply a physical space, but a mental concept. It’s not just a wall we’ve built, but it’s also our daily routines […]
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
Now That’s a Good Question Our actions have consequences. Sometimes those consequences are our own, sometimes they’re not. In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he answers a question about eating food that was offered to idols. He points out that for some this isn’t an issue because they know the idols aren’t God, because […]
You Have to Show Up or Nothing Gets Done
And This Happens Way Too Often I’m writing this at 7:00 on Thursday evening, August 28, 2025. Earlier this afternoon, at about 2:30, I went by the job site for our current construction project. And the production crew wasn’t there. Based on the work that was done yesterday and what’s left to do, they hadn’t […]
Brokenness Is Part of the World
We Can Choose Broken or NOT We’re continuing through Paul’s letter to the people in Corinth. We’ve discussed how the people in the church have been fighting amongst themselves and missing their mission. The world is messy and broken but doesn’t have to be if we’re in alignment with God. This week Paul is giving […]
Deciding What Your Big Rocks Are
What Should I Do First? It’s 6:40 on Friday evening and it’s been a super crazy, busy day. I was supposed to have this week’s solution written and ready for my assistant Emily to edit and search for pictures this morning. I kept trying to squeeze in some time to start writing. Heck, I was […]