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Quote of the week comes from our actual meeting. I asked Jonathan if he prayed at all this week. His answer was, “I tried, but I forgot the story.” Hmm…I think I may have explained how to pray poorly. We’ll get to that in a minute. First…how cool is the [...]

As a refresher, last week we walked through the third chapter of the Gospel of John. This was a tough week for me, because it is a call to repentance in the chapter. Jonathan and I had a good week of discussing what it means and I will this week spend more time [...]

Quote of the week comes from Noah at dinner tonight. “Can I have some more orange wine?” A father has never been so proud, I mean embarrassed, no…proud.
So we were in John Chapter 3 today. This chapter speaks directly to our response to the gospel, so what response should I look for [...]

As a refresher, last week we walked through the second chapter of the Gospel of John. We started each section by defining words, we then read the text and followed it with an explanation of the section. It was very exciting to see Jonathan accepting these concepts with little to no resistance. [...]

Here’s a picture of him as fire for Halloween (Noah was a fireman).
I’ve been putting quotes up every week from Jonathan typically about our meeting. Just now I was sitting here working on this and Jonathan came up to me and said,
Instead of buying something at Starbucks, can we just bring our [...]

Every four or five months I’m asked to prepare a message and help our body prepare their hearts for communion. I love doing this, because it gives me an opportunity to look at the Word with an eye for the Gospel. Every time I do it, I get a new perspective on who [...]

As a refresher, last week we walked through the first chapter of the Gospel of John. It was good, but I felt like I spent the entire time defining words, so this week I’m going to start with word definitions before we read the text. We’ll see how that goes, but I’m thinking [...]

The night before as we pass our weekly meeting spot
Jonathan: See you tomorrow Starbucks
(This kid kills me)
Tonight Jonathan and I had another meeting; at this one we started the book of John. I learned a few things from this meeting, but mostly I learned that there are a lot of words that he [...]