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Workout for the Week: Are We There Yet? Memory Verse: Luke 2:15 Meditation Passage: Luke 2:8-20 Key Thought: If God said, “Get up and go,” would you? Are we there yet? Family travel tests our patience. Snacks, videos, and “I Spy” help, but travel takes a toll. Imagine travel in Mary and Joseph’s day. Let’s…

Workout for the Week: Track Your Christmas Package Memory Verse: 2 Peter 1:21 (NIV) “For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” Meditation Passage: Matthew 2:1-11 Key Thought: Track God’s prophecy to fulfillment. The big brown truck rumbles…

Workout for the Week: Outside the Christmas Box Memory Verse: Tailor to the Christmas Bible character of your choice Meditation Passage: Tailor to the Christmas Bible character of your choice Key Thought: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust This week, I want you…

Workout for the Week: Set the Story Straight, The Christmas Story Memory Verse: Acts 17:11 (NIV) “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” Meditation Passage: John 1:1-18 Key Thought:…

Workout for the Week: How to Train According to the Heart Memory Verse: Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV) “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Meditation Passage: Romans 8:5-14 Key Thought: I must train…

Twelve backs were torn open by the lashing whip. Thirty-seven. Thirty-eight. Thirty-nine strokes. Some time had passed since Jesus’ ascension. The apostles had been arrested. They’d spent a night in jail, experienced an angelic rescue, and then appeared before the Jewish Council. And now, a flogging. You can find the story in Acts 5. Even…

Election Day. Finally. Regardless of the results, let’s focus on two things: God is sovereign, and He can use ungodly people to accomplish His purposes. Though Hebrews 11 is filled with Hall of Faith heroes, Scripture is filled with outside–the-box, even outside-the-faith people used to accomplish God’s plan. Check out this line-up: Egyptian pharaohs. Joseph’s…

What is truth? Pilate’s question has become mine, though I’ve amended it. What is my truth? The amendment, however, is faulty. There is no my truth or your truth, though our culture grasps such terms in an effort to justify its choices. The fact remains. There is one truth and one truth only. We either…

I’m taking a dance class at my daughter’s studio. I have no dance background. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. We spend half of class time on technique. The other half is spent learning to worship through dance. And it’s been amazing. It’s very freeing to just dance. To let go. No one spends time checking out…

Echoes of previous sermons haunt me. Don’t be the bad soil. You know the parable. Farmer sows seed. The seed falls in four places: the path, a rocky place, a thorny, weedy spot, and the cultivated field. Only the field yields a crop. But— Wasn’t the soil the same? I doubt seriously that the soil…