I just watched the New England Patriots make pro football history. Undefeated. 16-0.
I came to my computer to check the news and the "Breaking News" story was about the Patriots.
Let me preface that I am a big football fan. NFL. College. High school. I like it all.
But while many of the citizens of New England [...]

Merry Christmas to everyone! I came across this and it made me think of the many men and women who are away from their families this Christmas because they are serving around the world in our military. Thank you.
shine!Jason
 

My wife, who loves barbershop/a cappella style music, came across this on YouTube. Even if this style of music isn’t your thing, I think you will enjoy it. Merry Christmas!
shine!Jason

Last night was one of the highlights of the year for me. Our ministry hosted our second annual "Adopt-a-Family" evening. We work with God’s Helping Hands to find a family to adopt for Christmas. This year we were blessed with a family of five as well as a senior citizen.
Around 6:30 pm, we gathered in [...]

One more excerpt from my Family Ministry Plan for my grad class…
Ministry is most effective when it is framed in the context of family. For the last several decades, many churches and para-church organizations seem to have created and built ministries which effectively treat each member of the family as a separate entity. Ministries such [...]

Below is an excerpt from my Family Ministry Plan for my grad class…
Throughout history God has worked through the family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of others. It may not have always been through the “traditional” family that many American churches espouse today, but the family unit, in various forms, has been [...]

In the final week of the six part series titled "God, Are You There?", we discuss dating and how God created us to connect with members of the opposite sex.
Why doesn’t he or she like me?

If you look at the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, you find that Jesus comes from a family with skeletons in the closet.
You find Tamar, a women who disguised herself as a prostitute and slept with her father-in-law Judah, because of a broken promise in the family.
Later we find Rahab, another prostitute.
Ruth, a women [...]

Today I helped with Matthew’s homeschool co-op and was "co-opted" into helping at one of the stations during craft time. My role was to help children use a hammer and nail to punch holes through a metal lid and make a Christmas ornament out of it.
Overall I really enjoyed helping. But (you knew there had to be [...]

Due to a technical difficulty, this week’s 180 Connections lesson was not recorded. Next week is the last week of the current series, "God, are you there?"