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Creativity & the Lyndes
Challies posted this fun video on how to stay creative: And I of course thought of the two most creative people I know: Taylor and Samara Lynde. Check out Taylor’s paintings here and Samara’s (super adorable and fun) Woolster Monsters here. (They obviously do NOT need to watch this video!)
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About to Lose Power
This morning, a semi-truck went down our alley and methodically ripped down all of the power and phone lines that go to our home and all of the homes next to us. To the driver’s credit, he or she did stop. (I’ve been praying for the driver because MAN! I bet they’re having a BAD DAY.) Within minutes we had a fire truck present. (Downed lines never being safe.) Within a couple of hours, an electric company truck with a GIGANTO new utility pole arrived. And now we’re about to lose power for who knows how long—but honestly, all I can feel about the whole thing is gratitude. How grateful…
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Ten Things to Remember When Your Child is Disobedient
GraceLaced has a great post for all of us: Ten Things to Remember When Your Child is Disobedient They’re all great, but my favorite is the final one: “Your child is a person, not a project.”
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Montana Morning
Nothing like a walk with friends in God’s beautiful creation to start our week off right …
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Allowing Others to Live Freely
‘Where this discipline of the tongue is practiced right from the start, individuals will make an amazing discovery. They will be able to stop constantly keeping an eye on others, judging them, condemning them, and putting them in their places and thus doing violence to them. They can now allow other Christians to live freely, just as God has brought them face to face with each other. The view of such persons expands and, to their amazement, they recognize for the first time the richness of God’s creative glory shining over their brothers and sisters. God did not make others as I would have made them. God did not…
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Laziness
Busy people are often lazy people. We get a lot done in a RUSH so we can slack off more. It’s a sin to be sure and Kevin DeYoung’s associate pastor nails it in a recent sermon (the notes of which can be found here too): Proverbs on Laziness (Time to jump into my work now, eh? 😉 )
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Sinners Tend to be Hiders
Just re-read Paul Tripp’s, Age of Opportunity and took pages of new notes. But here’s the one quote that is digging deep into my heart this morning: “Sinners tend to be hiders.” Oh, man. Isn’t that the truth! And it has nothing to do with being a teenager …
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Please Tell a Friend! Women’s Study DVD Series is Increasing in Price from $79 to $149 (!)
I just received official word from Peacemakers that on July 1 they are raising the price of my DVD series (The Peacemaking Church Women’s Study: Living the Gospel in Relationships) from $79 to $149. Plus, the study guides are increasing in price from $8.95 to $9.95/ea ($45 for a pack of 5 rather than $40). The good news is that the study will now include ten study guides rather than the current five. But still, this is a big price jump and I sure would like as many people as possible to get the study for the current rate. So would you please consider sharing this information with your church,…
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Asking Him or Her to Be Your Personal Messiah
“No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else … Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity. When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah, to give you the inward rest of soul that only God can give. Only when I have sought my identity in the proper place (in my relationship with God) am I able to put you in the proper place as well. When I relate to you knowing that I am God’s child and the recipient…
