
Thursday Thought - God's Creation is Good
God's creation is good. Always has been and always will be. Today, January 12, is a special day in our house. It's our middle child's 16th Birthday.

Thursday Thought - Rejoice in the Lord
We’ve spent the last few days talking about getting the New Year off to a positive start and a few ways to do that. I believe in counting your blessings, intentionally practicing gratitude and looking for the unexpected ways that God moves in our midst.

Thursday Thoughts - How Do You Give?
How do you give? Do you share with Friends how "generous" you are? Do you make it a point in conversation to share which…

Thursday Thoughts - Giving Grateful Praise
A Psalm for giving grateful praise to the Lord for great things He has done in our lives. Psalm 100

Thursday Thought - Preparing for Thanksgiving
Content provided by guest writer, Jenna Finkenhoefer. As someone who loves to cook, (and especially loves to eat!), AND is a recovering perfectionist, I usually spend free time leading up to Thanksgiving researching new recipes, thinking of creative ways to set the table...

Thursday Thought - Extend Community
After a couple of days talking about how to find community and the fact that God lives in community, let’s spend a minute talking about extended community – you know, the community that is bigger than our town or neighborhood. Chances are that you have family or friends who live outside of your 5-mile radius.

Thursday Thought - Jesus leaves the 99 to find the 1
Jesus told a parable about a shepherd who had 100 sheep and one of them got away. Will Jesus not leave the nighty-nine on the hills and go in search of the one who wandered off?

Thursday Thought - Fellowship with Other Believers
I'm finishing out this week thinking about the time we spend in fellowship with other believers. Monday's verses from Hebrews 10:24-25 have been a blessed reminder for me this week.

Thursday Thoughts – Give Thanks in all Circumstances
The 3rd action we are looking at in Paul’s list of instructions for living in the will of God instead the ways of the world is "give thanks in all circumstances". Paul didn’t write “Give thanks in the good times” or “Give thanks in successful times”. No, he wrote “Give thanks in ALL circumstances.”

Thrusday Thoughts - Praising God
In a recent daily devotional from the You Version Bible app was this verse and a beautiful pray praising God. Thank you to You Version for their daily devotions that remind me to start my day off praising God!

Thursday Thought - God is Greater
For the longest time I didn't know what the image meant. I saw it around, but never really asked anyone. If you're in the dark like I was, here is what it means. "God is Greater than the Highs and Lows."

Thursday Thought – Unexpected Hope
Every night before bed, I read a story out of our children’s Bible to my daughters. We just got into the New Testament, and we read the story in Luke 2 of how God sent a choir of angels to tell the lowly “riff-raff” shepherds about his Son who was born.