Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Theology
If you haven’t picked up on it yet, this month’s posts have been focused on goals and resolutions (you can check out the other posts here, here, and here). You know one thing about goals and resolutions is they can make you feel like you’re losing some of your freedom. You commit to getting certain things done or eating a …
Christian Life
One of the most popular New Years Resolutions is trying to improve your health. In fact, this year, 37% of people reported that eating healthier is one of their resolutions. Another 37% said exercising more was theirs. Whether your intention this year is to eat healthier, exercise more, or lose weight, the intention is generally the same: making sure you’re …
Christian Life, Life Rhythms, Theology
At the end of December and throughout the month of January, people tend to think about the goals they have for the next year. For a lot of people that might mean making a goal list, deciding on a New Year’s Resolution, or starting a new habit or hobby. It’s good for us to think ahead and to think of …
Christian Life
Christmas is over and the new year is upon us. In some ways, it’s crazy to me that this year is over. It’s gone by so fast and so many things have happened. Significant Moments of 2018: 1. I submitted my first book proposal 2. My husband and I bought our first house 3. We moved into said house and …
Christmas/Advent
At Christmas, it’s easy for us to focus just on what Jesus did for us. That’s understandable as Jesus accomplished a heck of a lot for us in his 30 odd years of life, starting with his incredible birth. However, we can learn a lot by thinking about what Christmas meant for Jesus. The Inside Scoop in Philippians 2 We …
Christmas/Advent
One of my favorite Christmas songs is “O Come, O Come,Emmanuel”. I think it’s a lovely song and also has a great message. The word “Emmanuel”is Hebrew for “God with us.” That’s what Christmas is really all about. Through Jesus, God now lives among us. Now, God has always been with his people in one way or another. In the …
Christmas/Advent
This week, as I’ve been thinking about the Christmas story, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Magi or the Wise Men that are mentioned in Matthew 2:1-12. The Magi are interesting characters. We aren’t told nearly enough about them in my humble opinion(though I suppose God has told us everything we need to know about them). We don’t know …
Christmas/Advent
Christmas is here! I got to start my Advent devotional yesterday and I am so excited for the Christmas season. It’s easily my favorite time of the year. However, as I talked about in last week’s blog post, it can be hard during the Christmas season to slow down and actually remember why we’re celebrating. To help keep me on …
Christmas/Advent
When I was a kid, the Christmas season seemed to last forever. The days seemed to crawl by as I waited for that magical day where we would finally get to open all those presents. Now that I’m older, the opposite happens. It seems like I blink and Christmas is over. What makes this really hard is that it seems …
Christian Life, Life Rhythms, Theology
Thanksgiving is an awesome holiday. You eat amazing food (and lots of it). You get together with family and friends. It starts the Christmas season. It’s just great. In the midst of all the eating and the planning for Christmas, it’s easy to bypass Thanksgiving. It can so easily get overlooked, but it’s so important. Thanksgiving is a holiday where …