Principal or Prince?

I'm sensing a theme.... I'm not even certain I can verbalize it clearly yet, but the reality that one day everyone will stand before the Creator has been popping up an awful lot lately. It's really not a new topic. I have thought about it often before: ME standing before the One who shed blood…

The Reason Why

I repeatedly used to ask the high schoolers in my Sunday School class: "What is the worst thing that could happen to you?" The first time I asked it, I got a huge range of answers: "I could get my phone taken away" "not getting into college" "my dad could lose his job" "a parent…

How Covenant Sustains Us

  I recently went to the wedding of a young friend I’ve known since she was a skinny eight-year-old. She is now 27. The wedding was beautiful in both its simplicity and its message. The young couple intentionally choreographed a ceremony that highlighted the fact that what they were entering was a covenant marriage before…