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  • Lost Vegas

    Tim and I went to Las Vegas last week. It was the second time I’ve been there. The first time was for my job, and this time was as a plus one for my husband’s attendance to the Construction Expo.  I didn’t get to look at the city much last time because I was working,…

  • 2 Corinthians 3: Proof of Life

    In the third chapter of Second Corinthians, Paul asks what letters of recommendation he needs to prove himself. His recommendation is written by their relationship, inscribed on his heart, “not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.”  Before Paul’s conversion, he was carrying papers that condemned the early believers to jail or…

  • Door to my Heart

    This week Tim and I learned how to take apart a door jam and put it back together. We always start these projects thinking they’re going to take an hour, then three days later we are still working on it. I learned more about how a door works. There is a frame and a jam…

  • The Check In 

    It’s still January of 2026. At the beginning of 2020, I wrote about all my hopes and dreams for the decade. Now it’s all whipping by like a car with no steering wheel and a brick on the gas.  In a few hours, I will pack up the kids and drive them two and a…

  • 1 Corinthians 15: Seeds of Life

    In this chapter, Paul first affirms the bodily resurrection of Christ. He lists all the witnesses in order beginning with Cephas (Peter), then the disciples, the larger group of 500 followers, James, the apostles and then himself, counting his vision of Christ. He acknowledges himself the least of the fellowship because of his participation in…

  • 1 Corinthians 14: Words & Women

    Paul returns from his celebration of love to the gift of prophecy, speaking truths, and tongues, utterances in other languages or unknown words. Paul says that prophecy instructs and consoles the Church while praying in tongues encourages the spirit. There are groups within Christianity today that either over-emphasize or deny the use of tongues in…

  • 1 Corinthians 13: 1-3 This is the Way

    This chapter about love is often quoted in weddings, but should always be coupled with discussion of spiritual gifts as they go together like a husband and wife. To speak in the language of men and angels without love is like a clanging cymbals, useless and annoying. All the spiritual gifts, including faith and even…

  • 1 Corinthians 9: Free for All

    In this chapter, Paul talks about his freedoms and responsibilities as a believer. He reiterates that he is free in Christ. He says that the evidence of his apostleship is the believing community that helped found. The work defines the position, not the other way around. He goes into his rights and privileges; he may…

  • Dreams & Goals

    Christmas eve this year, I sat on the bed wrapping gifts and chain-binging Christmas movies. One was a Hallmark story where a big city gal goes to back to her Southern hometown for the holidays. While the characters were awkwardly churning through lines that someone spent five seconds writing, the romantic lead said he was…

  • I Corinthians 3: Subcontractors of the Spirit

    Paul continues to address the divisions within the Corinthian Church. He tells them to grow up, they can’t just be sustained on milk, meaning they have to start acting more mature. Paul is going to give them something to chew on. Currently, they are acting out in jealousy and strife, which are not the ways…