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Training Wheels

Most of the time when a kid learns to ride a bicycle, they start with training wheels until they learn how to balance properly, then they don't need them anymore and can do even more while they ride. Sometimes life can be like that. But what happens when you think...

Almost, I Think

Several posts back (Time for a Change and Some Balance Adjustment) I mentioned setting a day to blog once a week. I'm trying to make that day Thursday, but I've missed it a couple times and made up for it by posting twice the next week. I would have liked to have had...

Being a Neighbor

I was teaching the kids at church about the Good Samaritan tonight (Luke 10:25-37), and it made me think of how I and so many others can be in our own lives. A man asked Jesus a question about how to inherit eternal life. Jesus asked him what the Law (the first few...

Practice, Practice, Practice!

Lately I've noticed marked musical improvement with one of my students and with a musician friend of mine at church. It's because they've been practicing consistently. I've known for years that consistent practice makes you good at things, I just love it every time I...

God’s Business

There are things that are God's business and are His alone, and there are things that He has made our business. When Jesus gave the Great Commission to His followers in Acts 1:7-8, He made telling people about Him and His work our business. But the part where a person...

Pursuing True Greatness

I have some notes from a recent sermon to share. We were in Mark 9:33-37. To summarize, Jesus had just told His disciples that He was going to be taken and crucified, and that He would rise again. They were afraid to ask Him what He meant (Mark 9:30-32). As they...

Missing Out While Pining and Whining

Writing today about another fun lesson from children! One of the kiddos didn't get something they wanted, and decided to sit around whining about it. This dear child could have been having fun with friends, but decided to waste time complaining about what they didn't...

Rules for Fun

Have you ever played a game without rules, or with rules that were made up arbitrarily and only apply when convenient for the person who made them? Have you ever been upset or hurt by someone who wasn't following a rule, law, or policy? Have you ever been the person...

Just a Little Faith in Christ

In the sermon yesterday morning we were in Mark 9:14-29. The same account is also told in Matthew 17:14-21. This is right after Jesus has taken Peter, James, and John to a mountain top where they saw Jesus transfigured before them. They saw the unveiled glory of...