Sermon Archive (Page 8)

When I was in high school, my dad, grandpa, and I went on a salmon fishing trip over to Lake Michigan. Now, as a Minnesotan, I grew up spending many hours on boats every summer without ever having a problem. But, when we got on the water for the first night of fishing, we ended up getting caught in a large thunderstorm when we were about a mile offshore. I’m sure it…

My therapist once told me “If you’re thinking about everything that you should be doing while you are resting, then you aren’t actually resting.” While I didn’t particularly want to hear this, it made sense to me, and it continues to serve as a good reminder on my day off all these years later. Because, it’s really difficult to actually rest if my mind is racing in twenty…

When I was a kid, I was, let’s just say, creative! Which meant that I was often spending time in time-out for my attempts to push the boundaries on what I was allowed and not allowed to do. Usually, it was my attempt to find a loophole, but sometimes it was just because I flat out didn’t listen when I was told not to do something. Like when I would swim as many laps…