Sometimes the best advice is more simple than you might think. Case in point: My classroom is right next door to the tech team at my school. It is one of my greatest luxuries! My classroom is also full of computers, so issues do pop up here and there. But almost anytime we have an…
Category: Christian Living
Living a Slow Life in a Hurried World
Last summer, I spent some time in Africa. It was incredible! Well, except for some travel blunders on my journey across the ocean. My plane in Kansas City, Missouri, hadn’t even backed away from the jetway before a thunderstorm rolled in and delayed our takeoff. And, of course, a chain reaction ensued… I didn’t get…
The Truth About Life’s Small, Simple Moments
My church did a sermon series about legacies last fall. Our pastors used various stages of David’s life to teach about how to leave a legacy with eternal significance. On the final week of the preaching series, my pastor talked about how a legacy is managed moment by moment. Although we think about BIG things…
The Surprising Role You Didn’t Know You Have
In the book of Hosea, we read about God’s communication with the Israelite people, who have been unfaithful to Him. Hosea even uses the phrase, “spirit of prostitution,” more than once when talking about the nation of Israel. In this context, God’s Word is referring to the covenant relationship between God and His people. When…
How God Prepares You for His Work in the World
One of my jobs at the school where I teach is serving as advisor of the student newspaper. A couple of my classes are journalism classes, and they are responsible for planning, writing, designing and publishing a monthly high school newspaper. As I prepare students for embarking on our first edition of the newspaper each…
10 Ways to Successfully ‘Stack Days’ With Jesus
This concept of “stacking days” has been on my mind recently. Have you heard someone use this term before? It basically means focusing on discipline and consistency rather than perfection and results. For example, an athlete stacks days by showing up to the weight room every day during the off-season, and even by lifting weights…
How to Not Forget God’s Place in Your Life
I have been thinking about the word acknowledge. Merriam-Webster gives several different definitions of this word. They include: to recognize the rights, authority, or status of to disclose knowledge of or agreement with to express gratitude or obligation for to take notice of to make known the receipt of to recognize as genuine or valid…
What Will You Do With Jesus?
As followers of Jesus, we never really get to a point where we have “arrived.” Would you agree? I know for me, the Holy Spirit is constantly convicting me of ways I can grow and mature to become more like Jesus. I’m human, which means I am definitely imperfect. There is always room for improvement….
A Right Response to Satan Lurking in the Darkness
My daily class schedule changed this year. Half of my classes are middle school and half are high school, and they include journalism, world literature, computers and an introduction to computer science course. I actually quite enjoy the variety. Teaching the exact same thing over and over all day long might get boring for me….
What Happens When You Focus on the Next Step
Ohhh what we would do to know God’s long-term plan for our lives, right? Or maybe I should just speak for myself here. I feel like I’m constantly craving a big picture plan. It doesn’t necessarily stress me out to not know what my next 5-10 years hold, but I often find myself thinking that…