October E-News: For Better or For Worse —Oct 2, 2008

Marriage is hard work. Don't let anyone deceive you into thinking that marriage is all about feelings, romance, and endless smiles. While a relationship often begins with such superficial components, marriage is much deeper. Marriage is a covenant. 

What is a covenant?

August E-News: Why Is Grace So Hard to Embrace? —Aug 2, 2008
There is no other doctrine, I believe, that is simultaneously the most difficult to understand and yet the easiest to receive than that of grace.  Denominations are split over it, pastors argue about it, cultures ignore it, and only a few ever truly embrace it.  Why is this one little word, this small, yet overwhelmingly powerful concept, so difficult to embrace?

July E-News: The Power of Friendship —Jul 2, 2008
I’ve been thinking lately about friendship and what makes it so powerful, so I thought I would share some thoughts rattling around in the tin cup of my mind. Friendship is a unique bond, somewhat hard to describe in academic terms or even to contain with words. To define friendship requires you to use words like “feel” and “kinda like” and “imagine.” But that is part of what makes friendship so powerful, it connects with a part of us that is unseen, a deep immaterial place where souls collide, yet in such a collision we find peace and rest and comfort.