The Christian life is sometimes referred to as a sporting event (2 Corinthians 9:24-27). The rulebook for Major League Baseball has some general instructions for umpires that I couldn’t help but draw some spiritual applications from. The following are a few with some verses that we can all learn from to help us in our…

Over the last couple weeks, Kristina and I have been putting in plants around our house. When we bought the house, the previous owners had cut out all the landscaping. Last summer some of the plants started growing back and we gave them time to see what we had, but we knew there would have…

Vacations are great. I’m so thankful that our kids gave us the opportunity to enjoy our first ever cruise. Justin and I had so much fun learning and planning for this ONE trip. It came up in our conversations daily for 10 months. We talked about many other things as well, wedding, graduation, jobs, family…

There is a popular hymn we sing called Hear Me When I Call and it was written by a man, who sat in the corner of a funeral home, during the visitation for his wife who had just passed away. In what is a dark moment for anyone, he remembered the words of our reading and penned…

The inspired record tells us in 1 Kings 14 that king Jeroboam, king of Israel, had a son that became sick. The king sends his wife, in disguise, to inquire of God’s prophet Ahijah to see what would become of this child. God tells Ahijah that Jeroboam’s wife was approaching in disguise and to give…

There is a ride at Walt Disney World called “It’s a Small World”. Even if you’ve never been there are rode it, you are probably aware of the mind-numbing repetitive song that is played during the ride: It’s a small world after all, it’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all,…

I remember the day I went grocery shopping and did not take a list. I ALWAYS take a list, but I thought I could remember what we needed for the next few days. We needed toilet paper so I bought the 9 double roll pack that came with a coupon for tissues. My kids are sneezy so I…

If you know me, you know I love to sing. I always have. I was in my elementary school’s chorus. I remember wearing a black and red reversible vest, a green bowtie, and a black derby hat to sing Christmas carols on stage. I dreamed of being a professional singer, but the whole being in front…

The works of the flesh are evident, “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice…

Last night my husband and I sat down to watch a movie. We picked one from our stash that we had not seen in a while. It was a VHS tape from 1999, almost an antique! I was getting it ready to watch while my husband was getting our supper plated. I put the tape…