As a kid and teen, occasionally I found myself throwing hands. It was rarer, however, that these fights were in defense of myself. Most of my scuffles came in defense of my siblings and friends. There was one occasion where I would have done so, but God intervened. Our youth group had taken a tripContinue reading “Let the God of the redeemed say so”
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Sour Patch Kids
Spring and early summer was always baseball season growing up at my house. I played for several years until one season I was beamed by every pitcher in the league. The price of being left-handed in a league full of right-handed pitchers. But even after I quit playing, my younger brother and sisters continued. ForContinue reading “Sour Patch Kids”
Domesticated sacrifice
What if you had to face a tiger? Pretend you get kidnapped by a psychopathic clown because you taunted him about his terrible balloon animals. He has a plan to dispose of you by feeding you to a tiger. But for some reason the clown asks if you would rather be taken to a tigerContinue reading “Domesticated sacrifice”
They didn’t have to look
A pretty girl walks by and she will turn the heads of the boys. I used joke as a youth pastor that if you get the girls to attend, soon the boys will come too. It is no secret that boys like what they see, and it seems the more they see the more theyContinue reading “They didn’t have to look”
No laying down
We know it is something we need to be prepared for, but we believed preparedness is checking off spiritual boxes and waiting in a field singing cute little worship songs. But our preparedness is much more.
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