By A Thread | Crosstraining 11.15.13

Read Acts 5:38-39 I’ll never forget watching my step dad build a deck on the front of our house one summer about two decades ago. It amazed me to watch him work. He would confidently work on a small part of something that seemed totally arbitrary or unrelated, but, in...

By A Thread | 11.14.13

Read Proverbs 19:21 & Proverbs 16:9 When I was little, I was constantly pinning things on my little sister. One time, however, I was genuinely innocent, but I got blamed anyway. Being punished for something I didn’t do was one of the worst feelings in the world,...

By A Thread | Crosstraining 11.13.13

Read 1 Peter 1:6-8 If your childhood was anything like mine, you grew up being taught that if you do good, good things will happen. If you study, you’ll do well in school. If you practice hard, you’ll do well on game day. That’s just the way it worked. By and large,...

By A Thread | Crosstraining 11.12.13

Read Romans 5:3-5 Have you ever had someone give you a ridiculous excuse as to why they couldn’t do something or be somewhere? It’s often easy to see right through someone when they are just trying to weasel their way out of something by being disingenuous. Some...

By A Thread | Crosstraining 11.11.13

Read Joshua 1:7-9 “I’m fine” is the single most dreaded sentence for any husband to hear. The words may say everything is okay, but the body language makes it clear that something isn’t quite right. In truth, there are times that all of us will say we feel or believe...