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Dec 2018
“We have a hard time believing God forgives and forgets our sins because we have trouble doing it ourselves” (A line from Scott’s message on 12/30/18 – LW sermons) We don’t forgive ourselves, we don’t forgive others. We don’t forget our sins and struggles, we don’t forget others. So why would God? Why indeed.......
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November 30, 2018
Discover HOPE This Christmas!
Join us at LivingWaters this Christmas Season as we celebrate the birth of our King! It can be hard to find HOPE in the stress and activity of this Holiday season. But the true sory...
July 02, 2018
Knee High By The 4th of July (Growing – part 1)
Have you ever heard the phrase “Knee-high by the 4th of July”? Where I grew up – and maybe where you grew up too – it is a very familiar adage. In parts of the country where...
June 11, 2018
“What my father taught me using nails”
The small Kansas town where I grew up had one of those old-timey hardware stores – like you might see in an episode of “Little House On The Prairie.” It was dark and crowded, and...
June 05, 2018
Adam or Jesus?
“…forever related to Adam and never to Christ” That is a line at the end of the June 5th devotion in the Indeed Devotional booklet. It is talking about the assumption of blood being thicker...
April 07, 2018
What’s Your Name Again?
There’s something that annoys me – a pet peeve of mine. It might be petty, and I’ve tried to stifle it – really I have. But I just can’t deny that it bothers me. Let...
March 26, 2018
Holy Week – Monday
The previous Sunday night Jesus returned to Bethany on the Mount of Olives to stay with the Twelve Apostles, probably at a friend’s house. If you or I were visiting Minneapolis, it would be similar...
March 20, 2018
Somebody Who Loves Me
“I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me” Everybody got Whitney’s voice in your head now? Many moons ago we...
March 01, 2018
Nahum
The book of Nahum reads like a scene out of the Avengers movies, mountains collapsing, rivers drying up, rocks shattering into pieces. Mortals trembling in fear, their hearts melting as they fall to their knees....
September 01, 2017
Embracing the Mess
When I thought about writing for this blog, I wrestled a lot with whether or not I was actually qualified to do the job. If you’re curious, I go into more detail about the grueling...