God's gifts are many and varied, spread all over creation with His lavish hand. In this post, I am going to focus a bit on spiritual gifts. Often we Christians have this complex about spiritual gifts. Salvation, we say, is truly a good gift of God given to people who don't deserve it. But spiritual …
Month: January 2016
Children and Winter Evenings: Plan of Action
Evenings can be hard--sometimes we parents are so tired and the last thing we feel like doing is coming up with creative fun for the kids. But...our children will only be young once, and why not have some jolly times with them? I find it easier to mix up the evenings of busy, messy projects with evenings that consist of quieter activities. I was inspired …
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I have not forgotten…
The post about Keeping Children Busy is in the works! I received some fantastic input and I'm excited to share it with you! It will take you a winter evening just to read it all. 🙂 I started the work of compiling everything, but...I have been sick all week. So it might be a few …
On Baptism
On Sunday I heard a refreshing sermon on baptism. Sometimes those basic Christian subjects feel like they get worn out with the telling, but this was not one of those days! The issue of baptism has niggled at me for a long time. When I was at Bible School, I could not understand how baptism could only …
Where there are oxen
While Will was home for his lunch break, I read to him out of T4T (a book written by Steve Smith with Ying Kai). The book uses a verse from Proverbs to show that a lot of mess is normal for vibrant churches. Here's the verse: Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come …
Keeping Children Busy On Winter Evenings
One of my friends asked me, how do you occupy four little children on these long, dark winter evenings? I hardly know myself. I have a few tricks, but not as many as I wish. We live in town, which limits what our kids can do after dark. (Actually, keeping them busy is not a problem. Keeping them …
Blogging 2015
WordPress sent me an email recently notifying me of my top five posts in 2015, rating them by how often they were read, which is dubious, in my opinion. How many views a post gets doesn't really determine if the material was true or worthwhile, does it? But it was interesting to see what resonated …