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Do Over

What do you do when it all falls apart? Your career, your marriage, your dream . . . How do you pick up the pieces and begin again? The consequences are usually mild when we ignore the directions for repairing a computer or just muff one off of the 1st tee. But the price of rushing […]

April 2015 – Peace

Peace Proving you care more about each other than about winning an argument. Memory Verse: “So let us do all we can to live in peace. And let us work hard to build each other up,” (Romans 14:19, NIrV) Week 1: We’ll start the month with the best example of peace, Jesus’ death and resurrection. […]

Easter 2015

Easter. Peeps and bunny baskets aside, the Easter story could feel stale—maybe even irrelevant. But what if the story of Easter isn’t just about a guy with a sweet beard who died 2,000 years ago and walked back out of his grave? What if it’s a story that actually happens all the time—to us, to […]

How To Change The World

How To Change The World Audacious? Sure is. Easy target for naysayers? Without question. It may sound lofty, but we want to be a tribe that sends ripples out, all over the world. If you do a quick read of the books of Acts and you’ll see world-changing, ripple-effect, obedience-stepping all over the place. Time […]

MARCH 2015 – Patience

Patience Waiting until later for what you want now. Memory Verse: “Wait for the Lord. Be strong and don’t lose hope. Wait for the Lord.” – Psalm 27:14 Bottom Line – What we want the kids to know: Remember that God’s plan is bigger than yours. Week 1: We’ll start the month with one of the best […]

FEBRUARY 2015 – Kindness

KINDNESS “Showing others they are valuable by how you treat them.” Memory Verse “Do to others as you want them to do to you.” – Luke 6:31 + This month our children’s environments will be looking at the virtue of KINDENSS. Download the weekly Fridge cards with the monthly memory verse, weekly meal time discussions, and […]

Married People

DID YOU KNOW? 54% of Americans are married. 21%  more hope to one day marry. 100% of people have a good friend who is married. 50% of these marriages will end in divorce. Unless we have God’s standard for marriage and understand what marriage is about, we are just making it up as we go. And even when we […]