ALIVE Blog

We didn’t set out to slack off. It just sort of happened. We budgeted well for several years. Stayed disciplined. Paid off debts. Found new ways to give. And after a while we started paying a little less attention to our finances.

Read the Psalm and the prayer every day. Then read the specific scripture for each day of the week. 

Every Sunday people ask me questions about our worship. Questions like: “What was that song we learned today? Who was that by? How do you decide what to sing?” One of my favorite questions to be asked is, “Why do you worship?”

Early this week I had the privilege of attending a conference on marriage ministry.

I received bad news that day.
The minute I got it, my thoughts started swirling.

Everything seemed like it was in question my future, my identity, my security. I knew I needed to talk to someone, so I made a phone call, sent a couple of texts, met up with those closest to me. Within hours the encouragement was coming in and what had seemed like an insurmountable obstacle began to shrink