When you were younger, do you remember getting a balloon for your birthday or some other special occasion? The person giving it to you probably warned, “If you don’t hold onto it tightly it will blow away and you’ll lose it!” So you wrapped your little fingers around it, gripping it with as much strength …
In the fall we introduced personal spiritual retreats and provided Volume 1 of a 4 part Personal Retreat Book series. In January, we released Volume 2 and now are providing Volume 3 to you. A spiritual retreat is a period of time set aside for more intentional focus on Jesus and his Word for your growth and refreshment. It …
To wrap up our Teens and the Bible series, we’ll be concluding with how to avoid some common obstacles that can keep you from enjoying your Bible. Help to Avoid Common Obstacles 1. Write a list of the framework or lens through which you see Scripture. We all have frameworks. Whether generational, social, cultural, political, …
In our last post, Teen, the Bible is for You, we encouraged you to see the Bible as written for you. Contrary to what culture tells us, it isn’t a dusty old book that is outdated and irrelevant to life today. We hope those encouragements inspired you to pick up the Bible and start reading it. …
We know the Bible is an old book – eternal, as a matter of fact. We know a lot of the context is ancient and the practices culturally unfamiliar. We know in some parts, the writing is poetic which can be challenging to interpret, and in other parts about as exciting as reading a history …
In the fall we introduced personal spiritual retreats and provided Volume 1 of a 4-part Personal Retreat Book series. A spiritual retreat is a period of time set aside for more intentional focus on Jesus and his Word for your growth and refreshment. It usually involves going to a quiet place so you can be undistracted by …
“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” (Psalm 107:1) November is a month filled with opportunities to more intentionally focus on who God is, what He has done for us, and respond to Him in praise, confession, repentance, and gratitude. We’ve put together a downloadable calendar filled with weekly …
Although the summer camp season of 2023 is over, for months to come, we will still be reveling in the good work God accomplished! We’ll soon dive into planning for upcoming camps, and the fuel for why we do what we do is stories like these. Will you listen as we tell of the Lord’s …
