Vacation Bible School has always been the best ministry week of the year for me! I have so many memories - Marty and I teaching preschool...

I remember plotting it out: 14 rounds of chemotherapy, every 3 weeks, after 6th round of chemo add in 36 days of radiation, continue 8...

We all face suffering, challenges and broken hearts because we live in a fallen world. In Nahum 1:7 it says, "The Lord is good, a refuge...

Hidden away in a secret place in our house is a box full of journals and I mean journals! So. Many. Journals. I started journaling in...

I was sitting in a restaurant eating lunch when I overheard a conversation that stuck with me. At the table next to me I was admiring a...

It was a cold night on the dock. As I was working, I felt like God was saying to me, “Matt, Will you trust me now?” I thought back to the...

I love when God orchestrates my life so distinctly. In the last 48 hours, I have heard references to the word “light” multiple times; in...

On August 14th I drove to UNI with our daughter Mikayla to help her move into her dorm room. We had both had a good cry the day before...

Psalm 46:10 starts out with this incredible truth: “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”

Both of these people faced a huge challenge and yet the way they approached them could not be any more different.

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

Is faith all you need? "...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” — Mark 11:24

It’s a story we’ve heard many times in Sunday School growing up. It is a beautiful model of how we are to live our lives: Matthew...

What does faith look like when you’re in the middle of a difficult season? Does it look like keeping a smile on your face and acting...

I was in Mexico on our mission trip this past summer. It was a great 10 days. Each morning I would get up and go to the top of the...

“Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let them call...

Something cool and almost wet hit my arm and was quickly traveling down it… I was probably twelve years old, spending a few days with my...

I thought in this blog I would give you five books I regularly recommend to people. These are exceptional books that are written by...

It’s our first spring in the new house…well, the new-to-us-1949-Cape Cod-with-no-dormers-and-yes- I’m-still-struggling-with-the-reality-o...

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting around a lunch table with a couple of other guys from church talking about a passage in the Bible we...