“So do not fear for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous hand.” Isaiah 41:10 April 2017. That was one of the scariest months/years of our family’s life. Luke and I had been married 13...
“So do not fear, I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 I have always gone to church and prayed yet I found myself searching for answers and not really finding them. I...
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast” Ephesians 2:8-9 I was born in a small farming community in Iowa inhabited by mostly German and Scandinavian descendants...
“And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is Love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 On Sunday June 25th, 1967 history was made when 400 million people over five continents tuned in their television sets to watch the Beatles record “All...
“Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.” Psalm 100:3 Henry David Thoreau once said, “Not until we are lost, do we begin to understand ourselves.” I’m sure we have all felt lost in...
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” Matthew 4:19 This verse takes me back to when I was a young kid. My Dad loved to fish and explore the outdoors, spending most of his free time teaching and sharing his passion with myself...
“Start your children off on the way they should go. And even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 “Just be home by dark” was a common phrase repeated multiple times by my mom as I was growing up. She may not have known exactly where we...
“Let all that you do be done in love.” - 1 Corinthians 16:14 As simple and cliche as this verse may sound, this bible verse is at its peak in importance. I and many of my peers have noticed that the growing world has become more critical of anything and everything...
“If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31 August 7th, I spent the day with friends on the lake and then went out for dinner. At dinner I got a text that my friend Bailey had passed away. At that moment I felt like the whole world had collapsed on top of me. How could...
“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned; the flames will not consume you.” Isaiah 43:2 There has been a series of challenges...