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Building Habits to Raise Lifelong Believers

How can you be building habits to raise lifelong believers without having to have it all figured out in advance? If you're struggling to know how to get consistent sharing Jesus with your child, this is the post for you. Introduction The sad reality is that nearly 2/3 of kids (64%) raised in ...
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Meatless Fridays in Lent: Teaching Kids About Faith

Parenting· Spiritual Life

Going meatless on Fridays in Lent is an excellent opportunity to teach your kids about and demonstrate your faith. Knowing Christ Desire for Our Kids to Know Christ We all long for our kids to grow up and know Jesus. But we struggle with how to live out our faith in a way that is winsome ...
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The Benefits of Adding a Spiritual Discipline for Lent

Spiritual Life

Lent for Protestants I love the practice of Lent. When it was first introduced to me years ago as something Protestants could participate in, I was at first dubious, but I've since see the benefits of both participating in Lent but also of adding a spiritual discipline for Lent. In the past, ...
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4 Things to Do for Lent in a Pandemic

Spiritual Life

The Challenges of Worshipping in a Pandemic This pandemic has really thrown the body of Christ, his church, a curve ball when it comes to worshiping God and finding things to do in Lent. It’s hard to carry out our “normal” spiritual practices. As Lent approaches, we face a new hurdle. Many ...
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Where Do You Turn When Life and Faith Collide?

Encouragement· Faith

I stay up late at night, thinking that by being awake when everyone else is asleep, I'm somehow keeping my family safe. It's a lie, and yet I feed it to myself every night. It's a pandemic unlike anything most of us have ever experienced. ...
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Where Is God in Our Suffering?

Bible Verses· Hard Topics

Suffering is hard. Suffering is hard. We are all going through something. But suffering is suffering. And it's hard on everyone. And everyone experiences it in different ways. Your suffering is real and does not need to be compared to anyone else's suffering. What we are all going through is ...
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What I Do at Night When My Mind Is Racing

Bible Verses· Going Deeper

Hey friends! When I can't sleep at night, and my mind is racing, this one thing has the ability to calm my mind and bring me to a place of peace and rest. I've been doing it since seminary, over 10 years now. Back then, I had insomnia-induced depression from a bad relationship (that's another ...
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How Observing Lent Helps You Find Time for God

Spiritual Life

Finding Time for God is Hard I'll admit it, it's hard for me to find time for God. Really, it's hard for me to make time for God. I know I have to make it a priority, but I feel like I'm barely making it through most days. Of course, I know I'd make it better through most days if I made time ...
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The Way of the Cross: Ash Wednesday Homily

Bible Studies

A Powerful King Becomes a Peasant The well-known Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, liked telling the story of a king who is very powerful and rich. In fact, the king’s power is known throughout the world. But he is an unhappy man, for he is deprived of the one thing he desires most, a ...
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What I Learned from Reading the Psalms in 21 Days: Advice for a Busy Person

Bible Basics· Spiritual Life

I've had a hard time getting back into daily scripture reading since having kids several years ago. The past few Lents and Advents I've done daily devotionals with supporting verses (The Benefits of Using a Bible App). While it was what I needed at the time, this past year I wanted to go ...
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What You Need to Do to Prepare for Lent

Going Deeper· Spiritual Life

A Little Irreverent Humor Ok, being an Episcopal priest doesn’t exempt me from irreverence. For the past five years I’ve been the priest at my parish’s 7:15am Ash Wednesday service. The Psalm always read at the service is Psalm 103. Psalm 103:14 reads, “For [God] himself knows whereof we are ...
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Why I Decided to Join the Episcopal Church

Faith· Life· Spiritual Life

For those who don't know it, I took a huge step of faith at Easter of 2014; I joined the Episcopal Church. This is my story of being an evangelical on the Canterbury Trail, as some call it. Some of you may think I'm crazy, others will surely think I've gone off the deep end, others will ...
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Advent for Kids Unwrapped: Clearing Up 3 Common Misbeliefs about Advent

Going Deeper· Parenting· Spiritual Life

If you're a Christian parent wanting to make Christmastime about more than Santa and presents and wanting to explore an easy, Advent-for-kids, special family tradition, you're in the right spot. Introduction to Advent for Kids The Advent season is a time often synonymous with Christmas, and ...
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What is True Biblical Justice? And Why it Matters.

Hard Topics· Our World

Anyone who has watched the news in the last year has seen cries for justice and different ways of seeking justice each vying for attention. As Christians, we must know what is true biblical justice and why it matters for our faith and for seeking justice in this world. With that said, justice has ...
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Benefits of Online Worship with Kids

Encouragement· Parenting· Spiritual Life

The benefits of online worship far outweigh the struggles of online worship with kids. Develop strategies to take advantage of the benefits of online, digital church with kids to transform your at-home church experience. What are the Benefits of Online Worship with Kids? In my last post, we ...
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Overcoming Online Worship Struggles with Kids

Encouragement· Life's Struggles· Parenting· Spiritual Life

I don't know about you, but I've been enjoying, yet dreading, online worship with my kids. It's so hard as a mom to want to have church with my kids but to struggle with how to navigate engaging the kids. And yet, if we allow it, the struggles we overcome during online worship can teach us and our ...
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My Prayer for Healing

Why I Decided to Join the Episcopal Church

Why Prayer Is Important

Building Habits to Raise Lifelong Believers

Meatless Fridays in Lent: Teaching Kids About Faith

The Benefits of Adding a Spiritual Discipline for Lent

4 Things to Do for Lent in a Pandemic

Where Do You Turn When Life and Faith Collide?

Where Is God in Our Suffering?

What I Do at Night When My Mind Is Racing

How Observing Lent Helps You Find Time for God

The Way of the Cross: Ash Wednesday Homily

What I Learned from Reading the Psalms in 21 Days: Advice for a Busy Person

What You Need to Do to Prepare for Lent

Why I Decided to Join the Episcopal Church

Advent for Kids Unwrapped: Clearing Up 3 Common Misbeliefs about Advent

What is True Biblical Justice? And Why it Matters.

Benefits of Online Worship with Kids

Overcoming Online Worship Struggles with Kids

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