“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”- Joshua 4:15 NIV   Do you ever sit back, relax and wonder about things that don’t make sense to you.  Sometimes, I think about things like, “Why are trees green instead of purple.”  That would make the world a...

What makes it hard to welcome people into our home and lives.  Sometimes it is the messiness in our lives. The house isn’t picked up, the dishes are in the sink, the floor needs swept or we need to vacuum, or it may be that we had a busy day and don’t feel like “peopling.”   Maybe it is something about them. They are messy, they say the wrong things all the time, the neighbors might cringe if they see them.  Maybe it’s that we just don’t feel like “dealing with them today.”  Or if you go to a...

There are many opinions about what makes a healthy church.  I’m sure that if asked almost every single church would point to themselves and say, “we are.”  Some churches would say, “see all the cool things we do, “we have dinners and events to bring everyone together.”  Some might say, “look at all the things we do for our community.”  Others would say, “we are growing in size and now we need to have 2 services on Sundays until we can get our new building built.”  A few might even say, “look...