If it hasn’t happened already, at some point you’ll probably experience your teenager exclaiming to you with frustration and pain in their eyes, “Mom, Dad, don’t you trust me?” You were probably following your God-given parental instinct and chose to limit a freedom or privilege that your student wanted to exercise and they pulled out [...]

Last month in our leadership training meeting with Pastor Garner he taught us about worship. One of the things he said has been stuck on repeat in my mind is that worship signals a re-orientation of our relationship to God. Meaning that worship puts our relationship with God into the place it is supposed to [...]

When I was around 8 years old my father was laid off from the steel factory he worked at in Lansing, MI. At the time he was also the senior pastor of a small church in Ann Arbor, where we lived, that was not yet able to support him financially. So things were really tight [...]

Reading through the Gospels and Acts this year made it really clear to me that in the lives of Jesus followers supernatural activity is the norm not the exception. Jesus sent the twelve and the 70 out in His name to preach the gospel, heal the sick and cast out demons. In Acts these [...]

I thought I would let you know what I am expecting and asking God for this school year. I have been deeply affected by Luke 24’s account of Jesus post-resurrection conversation with two turn-coat followers who were leaving Jerusalem on the road to Emmaus after Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus, while keeping the men from seeing who [...]