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Content provided by guest writer, Jenna Finkenhoefer. I’ll be the first to admit it. This time of year between winter and spring is difficult for me. Living in the Midwest, I’m guessing that I’m not alone in this sentiment. In mid-February I begin counting the days until time changes. Each day as the snow starts to melt and I see earth in my garden and flower beds...

You know how your favorite song makes you feel? Warm inside, probably “known” or “seen” in some way? What about your favorite food? A comforting feeling probably comes over you.

Prayer…How often do we stop and talk to God? Is it just a quick request or do we take time to really spend intimate time with God? The Shema prayer, in Deuteronomy 6:4-5, is one of the most famous prayers in the Bible. “Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. And as for you, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

God calls His people to be holy and committed to Him only. As followers of Christ, we should look and act different than the world.

In the post linked below, author Rick Warren does an amazing job of helping to bring about understanding around the subject of God's creation of "YOU". When I reflect on the post, I am reminded that I am not an accident. God create me in His image, He had a plan for my life, He made me to be me, and He made me for a purpose. You know what, He did this for you too! How incredible is this?

When I was in high school a print of this painting – “Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California” by Artist Albert Bierstadt – hung in our school library. Every time I looked at it, it hit me as a little bit of a disappointment...

We all have our daily struggles of what we are battling, projects at work, troubles at home, finances, etc. However, have you ever stopped…

Today I was reading a devotional about how Jesus never grows weary in caring for our needs. Isaiah 40:28

Does this image look like what you've been facing lately? For many of us in the Midwest we've literally been facing lots of snow covered roads this winter. Straining our eyes to find the road or looking for a car ahead to show us the way. Wishing our tires were gripping a little tighter to the pavement but prevented by the barrier of ice and snow.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful first day of the New Year and I’m excited to kick off this first week of the New Year with you on Pizza Ranch Serves. We all know about New Year’s Resolutions and studies show that close to 40% of adults make them every year.

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

Being in my mid-twenties, it seems as though everyone my age is in a season of waiting. It got me thinking, what does the Bible have to say about waiting?