Thank you to everyone who sowed into the trip financially and your prayers! Amy Maxwell led the team to serve alongside the ministries we support in Zambia and blessed the lives of so many teens and adults! The team started out the trip by visiting the domestic violence Safe House that we are building with…
Thank you for taking a moment to read about our dear partners and friends in Haiti below and the incredible need they are meeing, as well as the incredible impact that are making. All of us together at GAP Community need to fundraise $12,000 to run the medical clinic in 2021, $12,000 to pay the…
My favourite character in Guardians of the Galaxy is Groot. Groot is that lovable, irritating, and fiercely loyal tree creature who…
A parent asked me what Generation Z (the generation after Millennials) needs to hear right now in a seemingly charged “cancel culture” in America. I replied, “talk about character and values packaged in unconditional love.”
I did not want to write about this topic. I avoided it like the plague! I didn’t want to reveal that…
My dad died on January 25, 2021. The last day I was with him was January 10th. It was a Sunday, midday, and he called out to me and my sister from his bedroom to come be with him.
This principle, coupled with the idea of just being with what is, rather than immediately trying to fix or alleviate the source of my suffering has been profound!
If we cannot take responsibility for our failure, we cannot take any responsibility for any of our success.
Seek and ye shall find- it’s a principle found in scripture. No doubt your own experience also offers evidence to the validity of this principle. So the question is, “What are you seeking?”, that is, “what are you looking for?”
Without Vision, a people perish. Proverbs 29:18 My first experience with vision that I can remember is from 6th grade. One of my fellow students had taken our class picture home, and when he came back to school the next day, he told me, “My Mom said you’re going to be President of the United…
Like exfoliating our egos, God uses the suffering of life to scrape away the dead layers of selfishness and pride so that His image can shine through.
In significant ways, our lives are a reflection of our beliefs. What we believe is possible, available, attainable drives our attitudes and so our actions. We are designed by our Creator to go from ‘glory to glory’, not from settling to mediocre. God is continually after the attitude of our hearts.
I notice how tempted I am to think my judgment has no real impact on the one I’m judging. In fact in my worst moments I feel superior to them as I indulge my superficial judgment. It never once occurred to me that my judging of another would present as a stumbling block to them.
I say all of us have a view of ourselves we prefer. Something we say is us. I am this kind of person- a loving person, or a good person or however else you might think of yourself that at times can be self-flattering.
Automatic is the thief of intimacy. Decide first what you would like to share with the one in front of you, converse and listen in such a way that you share in a future worth having with them.
What if we decided today that we were going to own our freedom and our future? That we would honor the gift that Christ has given us by utilizing every choice to create the future, rather than staying stuck in the past? That we would own the fruit of our choices and shift as needed.
We are constantly thinking up new realities, and then translating them from thoughts into actions. We dream of getting a degree, we pursue college and turn that thought into reality. We dream of a family, we pursue marriage and kids and transform that dream into reality.
The tool that transforms thoughts into reality are our words.
If you want to know what it means to “go deep” in the scriptures, you needn’t look any further than the great commandment and commission. Love deeply (both God and people) and help people live out the life-altering truth that comes with that love. The question must be “how deep can I go in my love as a result of engaging the scriptures?”
I am convinced that almost every problem or struggle we face in life is connected to this larger conversation about our identity – who we are. Everything in our lives flow from our beliefs about ourselves, others and God.