Second semester of my senior year of seminary, I took a class that was about the benefits and practice of Scripture memorization. We read…
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This morning I woke up thinking about onions. Right before I turned in for bed last night, I saw an advertisement for bags of…
When I was in elementary school, we had a tradition of making May baskets out of paper cups. We would poke two holes in…
As a child, Palm Sunday was one of my favorite Sundays of the year. I got to wave a palm branch and shout, “Hosanna!”…
In my Sunday School class right now, we are studying Courtney Ellis’ book Uncluttered: Free Your Space, Free Your Schedule, Free Your Soul. Every…
I am often asked where Lent is found in the Bible, and the truth is that it occurs nowhere in Scripture. Lent – the…
I’m not sure exactly when or how it started, but it has become a longstanding tradition in our family to give our kids one…
When I first learned about Elf on the Shelf, I wasn’t just skeptical; I was resistant. Even though all of the elf antics looked…
Nothing stops me in my tracks every year quite like seeing the first box of Queen Anne cordial cherries on a shelf in the…
Every Advent as I double check to make sure we’ve got enough candles for the Advent wreath, I ask myself if the first candle…