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One of the ways that we have been trying to teach our kinds about Jesus and the gospel is asking them to figure out ways that their current activity relates to them. (Sometimes finding the relationship between “How to Train Your Dragon” and the gospel is a bit of a stretch… but we normally are […]
I listened to a sermon online recently that encouraged the people of the church to all come to the point where they have all at least read the bible. The idea was that the bible is our sacred book, we should at least probably know what is in there… Recently I have been using the […]
This Wednesday I was about to walk outside, when I started to hear the severe weather siren sounding. I started to get a bit confused, because while I was growing up these alarms only sounded in the summer (or maybe they sounded all year long and I was having too much fun at school to […]
Every year it is good for us to remember what we signed up for when we say we are going to be a part of the Grafted family. Here is Grafted Community Church’s Covenant: “We believe God has called Grafted Community Church to glorify His name by helping as many people as possible become fully […]
I was listening to a podcast a few days ago on my way home from work on the concept behind the Hebrew word chochmah (seriously, is there anything The Bible Project guys don’t do?) and they mentioned a verse from the book of Proverbs. Here is it: 4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is […]
God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. This is a phrases that has helped many begin a conversation about who God is and what Jesus’s death on a cross means for their life with others. The evangelistic parachurch Cru used the Gospel tract “The Four Spiritual Laws” for years which opens […]
This week Chel and I met with the doctors marking the beginnings of the journey of radiation therapy for her brain cancer. We have known that this was coming for a couple of months now, but being in the room where it happens is a whole different ball game. During the past few months the […]
As I look back on my life, every once in a while my musical tastes will wander back to listening to that wonderful style of music that most people love to hate, but that I came to love in High School: country music. The time has come and my dial has been turned back to […]
One of the joys of joys of getting prayer requests each week is that sometimes I get to pray for y’all’s senses of humor… Some of the jokes that are on the backs of the communication cards are, well, bad. Others of them are pretty good! I carry these jokes around in my pocket because […]
I have been thinking a lot about gifts lately (which make a ton of sense since Christmas is right around the corner). Trying to help our kids catch that God showed us the most amazing gift by proving just how much He really is God-with-us on the first Christmas is pretty hard during the Over-Commercialized […]