Open Our Mouths: Preparing to Serve

Throughout our lives God may call us to serve in different capacities, various ministries and unique places. Yet, no matter where we are or how we are serving Him, we must be prepared. In this series thus far we have looked at opening ourselves in varying ways in order to prepare ourselves to serve the […]

Being Real: The Reality of Relational Abuse

If the word “abuse” is brought up, most people change the topic altogether. No one wants to talk about the “elephant in the room”…no one wants to get involved. Something to the affect of “It’s their problem, let them work it out together” is said, or is at least thought. What people on the outside […]

Discipling Our Kids: Teaching Them to Pray

There are times that I believe parents think that their kids should just know how to do things. Maybe not everything, but some things we tend to just assume they know what to do. How silly this really is, because we had to be taught how things are done; whether by our parents, watching other […]

Lifesong Prayer Team

Weekly in the office, our Lifesong Family comes together to pray for our in-country orphan initiatives, adoptive families, Forgotten Advocates, fellow co-workers and anything other items needing prayer or praise that week. It’s a special time to come together to remember and acknowledge THE ONE who deserves all the glory and praise for the work […]

Open Our Hands: Preparing to Serve

Throughout this series so far we’ve looked at opening our hearts, ears, and eyes. Today we’re going to look at opening our hands. Before we are ready to serve, we have to be willing to get things done. Our hands need to be opened in order to do what God has planned for us in […]

Being Real: Combating Bullying

Over the last two weeks I’ve covered “Bullying in Today’s World” and the “After Affects of Bullying“. Today I’m going to try to tackle ways that we can combat the bullying of our children. In order to begin this combating process we will have to answer a couple questions. 1. What will it require of […]

Open Our Eyes: Preparing to Serve

Beyond opening our hearts and our ears to allow God to work in and through us, there is another step in the process to preparing ourselves to serve the Lord. First, our hearts must be truly open to serving God anywhere, reaching anyone and doing anything He calls us to, then our ears must really […]

Being Real: After Affects of Bullying

Most times unless we are involved we don’t like to get into the negative things going on in the world. We all have enough on our plates, and adding more to it won’t make life easier on us. While it is true that most of us have an over flowing plate, being aware of situations […]

Discipling Our Kids: Reading the Bible

The most important book we could ever read to our children is the Bible. It is within it’s pages that we can teach them of life, pride, anger, selfishness, love, mercy, forgiveness and grace. What single other book holds such a broad scope of topics for us to teach our children? What other book reveals […]

Open Our Ears: Preparing to Serve

Last week we covered the first step in the “Preparing to Serve” series here. In this post we discussed the crucial importance of opening our hearts prior to serving the Lord. Today we’re going to look at the second process in preparing ourselves for serving the Lord. Second to opening our hearts is opening our ears, […]