Are you a check-list person? I once heard Mike Greenberg (of Mike and Mike on ESPN radio in the morning) talk about the obsessive to-do list that he keeps in his journal. Not only does he go through the trouble to create little boxes next to his tasks to check off once completed, he said he actually writes things down on his list that he has already completed just so that ...
Keep ReadingI think the third song I ever learned in church (after "Jesus Loves Me" and "Jesus Loves the Little Children) was "If You're Happy and You Know It." If you never clapped, stomped and shouted your way through this one as a kid during Sunday school or Vacation Bible School, here's the general gist: If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! (clap, clap)If you're happ...
Keep ReadingBlock buster films, such as the latest Star Wars saga, Star Wars; The Force Awakens, have produced a unique influence on our culture by transporting an entire generation of movie goers into unknown worlds with larger-than-life heroes and strange creatures with weird names. Star Wars; The Force Awakens, the seventh in the Star War series, smashed all box office records in i...
Keep ReadingDuring Christmas break, I took advantage of one of Westminster Theological Seminary's online bookstore cyberdeal'sJ.C. Ryle's Daily Readings: From all Four Gospels. It is a daily devotional with a morning and evening selection for each day of the year from the Anglican bishop who lived from 1816-1900. I had discovered this years ago and had a copy in paperback that had fa...
Keep ReadingPhilippians 2:6 affirms the deity of Christ, who "existed in the form of God" but who also "did not regard equality with God as a thing to be grasped." Jesus did not selfishly hold on to His status as God; He gave it up for our sakes. His deity was never compromised - He did not cease being God - but He chose to leave Heaven because of His love for us. Paul tells us we sho...
Keep ReadingIt's hard to describe motherhood, but if I could use one word could describe it, I think that word would be "transforming." Being a mom is all about ushering along transformations, both big and small. On a daily basis, we help waking children go from pjs to play clothes, turn hungry children into well-fed children, comfort upset children into calmed children, and the list ...
Keep ReadingAs the old year ends and a new year begins, I have been evaluating what we are doing with the Rooted Ministry at Westminster. When Brad Mercer asked me to work as Children's Ministry Coordinator, there were about 20 children who were involved in all children's activities. Y'all, we now have that many on most Wednesday nights. Walker Coleman was in the first group that met ...
Keep ReadingAs an occupational therapist (OT), it's my job to gather information through an evaluation and then use that information to treat the patient. When I began occupational therapy school, I definitely would not have told you that doing an evaluation was why I wanted to be an OT. Of course not! Rather, what I wanted to do was to be working with the patient and seeing them impr...
Keep ReadingWestminster Presbyterian Church has some of the cutest babies and children in the city of Greenwood. When I see Eli at church, I have to fight the urge to squeeze his little baby cheeks. Hearing Cole sing louder than everyone around him in the congregation is the sweetest sound. Cora practically sprints away from me because she knows I'm going to get my hands on her precio...
Keep ReadingAs we embark on a new year, changes will occur. Some changes are by choice and others come naturally. Many of us willingly make New Year's resolutions to do something that will improve us or our circumstances for the next year. However, if you are like me, sticking to these new ideas past January is an accomplishment. How many times have I set out with determination to re...
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