This week’s sermon devotionals have been on point! The Winning Formula!! Are you like me and found this all to be so relevant, so needed, so simple, and yet so hard to involve God in the details of our lives, circumstances, and crises? The title of today’s devotion, “Do Not Get Contaminated” is another key element to a winning formula.It’s hard to believe that ten years ago we became ever so aware...  Read More

I love my kids and seeing the way they think and process. They always see things from a different perspective and there are a lot of funny moments because of it. Right now, my 5-year-old daughter thinks she is smarter than her mother and me. She has said multiple times now that she thinks and knows she is smarter than us. She is actually a very smart kid, but I thought she was joking at first. I l...  Read More

I love the book of Joshua—we get to read about the transition of leadership from Moses to Joshua. Just like any transition of leadership there is always a difference. Joshua pulls everyone together and walks the tribes of Israel through everything they have been through, from Abraham worshipping other gods, to Abraham leaving and following God’s plan. He is trying to make the point that all these ...  Read More

It’s the beauty of a deciduous tree in fall after a long hot summer. Each leaf, changing a beautiful shade of green, yellow, orange, and earth. The glow of a maple in mid-October is so vibrant that you can’t decipher one leaf from another. They all mesh together into a glowing bloom of color. There is so much beauty and promise in the leaves of fall, but that beauty fades, the vibrant colors die, ...  Read More

There is something to be said about a “good day’s work” that leads to satisfying rest. For our series in Joshua, it has all been about God using Joshua as an instrument to fulfill his promise to Abraham, Moses, and the children of Israel. God had said many years before Joshua that Israel would have their own land to raise their own families while worshipping their one, true God. That time had fina...  Read More

Main Point and Overview:The battles had been won, yet peace was only for a season. It’s a great reminder that until we get to heaven, there will be battles to fight for the Lord. For Israel, God had immensely blessed them with a new land after they had overcome their enemies. Now, there was a new enemy to consider…complacency. They had to guard against “forgetting God,” and falling for the cultura...  Read More