This is an easy fun summer party that can be done for any age group. Spuds with your Buds We baked enough potatoes for our guests then provided fun fixings for the potatoes. You can have your guests bring a fixing for the potato bar …
Mentoring
Awaken to Hear
“…Now Peter was still inwardly perplexed and doubted…” [Acts 10:1-22 AMP] What do you do when you have prayed and suddenly a voice says something that is incongruent to your usual way of thinking? And you say to yourself, “is this God or my …
The Value of Short-term Missions
Many Christian pragmatists suggest that short-term mission projects are a waste of resources. After all, it costs a lot of money to send a group of teenagers to Costa Rica for a week. What these well-meaning Christians don’t realize, however, is that it is impossible …
Drop Everything and Just Go?
Abraham woke up one day and heard the Lord speak to him and say, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). Those were his instructions; a simple go, no questions asked, no details, no …
Making Kingdom Connections
“Jesus said…give Me a drink” [John 4:7 AMP] Every life is filled with connections, day after day through a myriad of ways, we seek to fill our own needs through connecting with others. The footprints of Jesus led him to the place His needs would …
Exposed: Pornography & Marriage
In today’s episode Carla Anne Coroy interviews Ashley Weis, author of Exposed: A Novel, and Gerry Pettyjohn, as sex addiction counselor. Together they discuss some of the questions and topics sent in to Mentoring Moments since the first episode of this conversation a few weeks …
Learning How to Sit
“Be still, and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10 NIV Sitting still is hard for my young children–and it’s hard for me too. The world says go, go, go while the Lord says sit at my feet. Choosing to be still–and know He is …
Blanching Peaches and Me
My parents went to British Columbia this summer for a vacation. They came back with three cases of beautiful Okanagan Peaches. Drippy, sweet, stickiness dribbled down the chins of my kids as they bit into the luscious fruit. Slurping sounds and low groans indicated that …
A Healthy Soul
“Whoever believes in me, …streams of living water will flow from within him…” [John 7:38] Work that comes out of the overflow of God’s life within man, is the boundless, abundant life that Jesus spoke of “I have come that they may have life, and have …
Give Up, Get Back
I’m married-single-parenting again. It’s all good. That means we might have income for this week, so I’m happy about that. But it also means I’m home-alone-on-the-range again. I’m not sure why it’s taken me this long in life to realize that give and take happens …