Day 86: To Be Continued…

This post is dedicated to Brent Campbell. There’s a certain organization I’m joining and the motto is “Friendship is essential to the soul.” Brent, your friendship—your brotherhood—has meant the world to me. Brent, I love you more than words can express. We’ve been through so much together and I wish we could run it back. […]

Day 78: A Psalm

A prayer for repentance. March 19, 2022 My soul longs for you. My soul longs for the living God. I seek your face in humility for forgiveness of my sins. It was your mercy that guided every footstep and your right hand held me up when I stumbled and staggered in darkness. You pour on […]

Day 64: Let’s Fast Together

We’ve officially entered the Easter season. Lent started this past Wednesday and will go on until Holy Week. Lent is a 40 day period of fasting that is dedicated to growing closer to God. Lent 2022 will be March 2- April 10. For those who do not know what fasting is, fasting is the temporary […]

Day 57: Remember

Sometimes the gravest sin we commit is the sin of forgetting. How do you remember what God has done for you? This is more than simply recollecting memories from years ago, but do you have anything tangible that you can see as a memorial for what God has done? Throughout the Hebrew Bible, God’s people […]

Day 50: What is the Bible?

I’ve heard this question asked a lot and I’ve heard various answers to it throughout the course of my life. This post is intended to encourage you to engage with Scripture in a new way that shines a light on it that ignites a desire to read it, study it, and love it in a […]

Day 43: Creation

I love nature and one of the things I enjoy about being a teacher is having the opportunity to teach science. By the time this post is published, my first graders will be looking at biology and in particular, animal science. Every now and then I find myself going back to Genesis and going over […]

Day 36: The Season of Selah

Return, O my soul, to your rest, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you. —Psalm 116:7 The word selah is an unusual word because we don’t use it often—at least we’re not supposed to because it’s a word we aren’t supposed to read. I’m a Bible nerd and I want to name one of my […]

Day 29: Resurrection

We don’t have to wait until Easter to talk about resurrection One of my favorite verses of Scripture is John 12:24, “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”‭‭The context for this verse […]

Day 15: Resilience

One of the realities of life is that trouble does not go away because we turn the page on the calendar. We can name it, claim it, blab it, grab it, call it, haul it, we can anoint 2022 in as much oil as we want, but the truth is, this year will be as […]

Day 8: Restoration

Another chance is one of God’s greatest gifts. Many people make New Year’s Resolutions that involve them taking on new challenges, creating new vision boards, wanting to do this, wanting to do that, and they are oblivious to the reality that there is quite a bit they did not achieve from last year’s list. One […]