The Gospel has a transformational quality for our own personal lives and our marriages and our relationships to our children.
Sometimes we struggle with being patient. One of the professions that we have in our world that I think demonstrates the most patience and most reliance upon God is the vocation of farmer.
The United States, like many other countries around the world, celebrates a day of Thanksgiving. Maybe it begs the question, who do we thank?
There's a psychological phenomenon that I think that we're all a little bit susceptible to. It's called rosy retrospection.
A few years ago, I went whitewater rafting. I was so excited for the trip. I was looking forward to the adventure.
Sometimes we're tempted to think that we are self-made people. I have earned this. I have done this.
Revenge feels good if someone hurts us. Our natural reaction is to try to pay them back, to make them feel that same sort of pain that we felt.
The Old Testament is full of these rules, these customs and rituals that seem so foreign to us today.
They say there are two seasons in Minnesota, winter and road construction. And have had to painfully deal with road construction over these past number of months.
Today, I want to share with you part of a verse from the book of Romans. And it's not even a whole verse.
It's a silly story, but it is fun to think that we have someone who does the worrying for us here and we don't have to pay for it at all.
We were once in darkness. We once had a filter covering our vision, like a filter on the end of a camera.
