I grew up on the tales of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. The fantastical folklore entertained me and my siblings as we washed the dishes after dinner each night. Within mere pages, the story of the illustrious, accomplished, and incredibly irrational Baron von Munchausen took me back to my younger days of laughing over the unbelievably thin, one-sided […]

Through the ministry of hospitality, we provide friendship, acceptance, fellowship, refreshment, comfort, and love in one of the richest and deepest ways possible for humans to understand.  Unless we open the doors of our homes to one another, the reality of the local church as a close-knit family of loving brothers and sisters is only a theory. Nothing distinguishes a […]

Princess Switch 2: Switched Again Red Notice Family Camp The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Ocean’s 13 This Beautiful Fantastic The King’s Speech Hillbilly Elegy The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The Super Mario Bros. Movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse […]

January Single and Satisfied: A Grace-Filled Calling for the Unmarried – Nancy Wilson The Green Ember – S. D. Smith The Black Star of Kingston – S. D. Smith Ember Falls – S. D. Smith The Last Archer – S. D. Smith Old Sam, Thoroughbred Trotter – Don Alonzo Taylor Old Sam and the Horse Thieves – Don Alonzo Taylor […]

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven . . . I am a bibliophile through and through.  If you cut me, I might bleed ink, to be perfectly honest.  However, this year has marked a new level of reading obsession.  I met my mark for the number of books I wanted to read […]

  God has inspired a Psalm for every sigh of the soul . . .                                         The Lord has persistently convicted me about my prayer life for the past few months.  Prayer has been brought up in sermons at church, the […]