True North
Trusting Jesus in a Wild World This past week was Vacation Bible School at church. This meant that the kids gave us a firsthand example of what they learned. The theme of the week was True North. It’s amazing and encouraging to see these young people living out their Christian faith. A compass points north […]
Finding the Balance in Our Busy Lives
This Can Be Hard to Do I was asked to write an article for the July edition of Niccie Kliegl’s As For Me and My House Magazine. This online magazine features articles focused on House, Marriage, Parenting, Finances, Health, and Community. I’ve written three previous articles—one on finance and two on houses—which fit well with […]
Jesus is the Vine, We are the Branches
Leave the Gardening up to God This is the final week of the “I Am” statements. Previously we discussed Jesus being the Light of the World, the Bread of Life, the Gate and Good Shepherd, the Resurrection and the Life, and The Way, The Truth and The Life. As living things, we are either growing […]
What Should Be Done First?
An Example of a To Do List Triage We’ve been discussing how crazy busy life can be, especially when running a business. We talked through the importance of routines and getting the day started off right. Breaking big things down into small pieces and the process for doing that. Last week’s post was on knowing […]
Jesus is The Way, The Truth and The Life
We Can Choose to Believe This or Not Choice is a superpower that too often gets overlooked and under used. We’ve been given free will, but more often than not, we ignore it. Too much of the time we get sucked into the perspective that this is the life I have, and I just have […]
The Key to Getting More Done
How to Know What to Do First It is easy to get consumed by all the things that need to be done. But we have more control over this than we think. It’s like BUILDing anything, it comes down to Being aware, Understanding, taking Intentional action and continued Learning. The past few weeks we have […]
Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life
We Would Smell Better if We Were Focused on the Right Thing Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing who Jesus is. He is the Light of the World, the Bread of Life, the Gate and Good Shepherd. This week Jesus tells us that He is the Resurrection and the Life. (John 11:25) Jesus […]
The Process for Breaking Big Things Down
You Can Only Lay One Brick at a Time Nothing gets done without taking action. But when there are so many big, scary things ahead of us, it can be hard to get started. Overwhelm can slam the brakes on progress. We get stuck in neutral, and nothing moves forward. Nothing will get done if […]
Jesus is the Gate and the Good Shepherd
And Don’t Sheep (We) Need These We’re continuing with the “I Am” statements of Jesus this week. Today is a combination of two of these. “I am the gate and the good shepherd,” John 10:1-15. In the Bible, sheep are used to represent people quite often and there’s a good reason for this. Having been […]
How Do I Get From Here to There?
Understanding Your Life’s GPS and Finding Direction A friend and I were recently discussing the sense of overwhelm and out-of-control feeling that we were both experiencing. There are so many worthwhile, valuable things pulling at our attention. How will I ever get them all done? My to-do list is so long there’s not enough time […]