• Please Pray for Troops & Chaplains

    Remembering Our Fallen Men and Women in the Military

    We’re heading to our Memorial Day services in a few hours and I just wanted to post our THANKS and HONORING of all of the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. We could never repay the debt we owe to their families and to them. I do hope that you are praying for our troops and that you will take time today to honor them all — the living and the dead.   “Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of…

  • Uncategorized

    Tim Keller’s “The Prodigal God”

    Yesterday I started reading Tim Keller’s, “The Prodigal God.” Before I began, I assumed it would be edifying and I would learn/grow. But having made it through just over half of the book in one long afternoon of combined childcare and reading, I have to say that I have also been tremendously blessed. And I am looking forward to finishing the rest of the book and discussing it in our women’s study that will meet this summer. (We’re having a brief women’s study May 27 – July 8 … right up until the time when Ella Marie should be, Lord willing, making her arrival. So if you’re in the Billings…

  • Singleness & Marriage

    Four Loves (CS Lewis)

    Fred and I were reflecting on our (almost fourteen-year) marriage by remembering the counsel we received near our wedding. (Due to a car accident that closed down a highway, the message ended up being given at our reception, not during our actual service because our dear friend, Dr. Paul Jensen, missed the service by just a few minutes. So, yes, we had the world’s shortest wedding. But hey! We left married–which is my only standard/goal for all weddings. Everything else is nice, sure, but if you leave married? Success!) But I digress … I know it may be strange to actually remember anything from your wedding message, but we both…

  • Sin & Repentance

    CCEF Addictions Curriculum: “Crossroads” (by Ed Welch)

    Over the past few weeks, my friend and I have been going through the The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation’s (CCEF’s) Crossroads Addictions Curriculum. It has, like all CCEF resources I’ve read, been both a challenge and a blessing. As I have progressed through the curriculum, I have also gone back and re-read many of my LiveBlogs from the 2008 CCEF Conference: The Addict in Us All. (If you’re interested in this topic at all, or if your church is interested in better ministering to the addicts in your midst—and believe me, you DO have them in your church whether you admit it and help them or not!—I encourage you…