wholly surrender | He must increase, but I must decrease. -John 3:30

Today my grandma’s old saying, “a watched pot never boils.” is really hitting home. It is our official due date, and Baby Girl Mathis is still holding out. This is worst than the night before your leave for Disney World. So much anticipation and expectation, yet no idea of when resolution will come. No plan. [...]

Today in Sunday School class we continued our study of Luke’s Gospel. We had lots of great conversation, but it was the following verses that really struck me this week. Luke 8:22-25 Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, “Let us go over [...]

Well the last couple of days evidence of fast approaching change have surfaced. Things are being cleaned, reorganized, assembled, etc… all in preparation for a pending arrival. It is starting to make the whole process a little more real for Daddy. It is kind of strange how that I have known for nine months we [...]

I recently started my first seminary class. It is called Discipleship Ministries. So last week our first writing assignment was to discuss the conditions/costs of discipleship and define what a “disciple” is. So I thought I would share my thoughts with you.  You can download a pdf of it here or simply read below. I [...]