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It’s amazing: the power of a candle. My family spends time doing a family devotion as part of our bedtime routine. It’s one small way to help the kids settle down and shift gears, in hopes of transitioning to sleeping children. (I’ll be honest: Bedtime has been a struggle for us for years…) Spending time…
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(The following is a reprint of a Newsletter Article I wrote for Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Fargo, ND for April, 2025) It only took about a month, but I finally got all my boxes unpacked and my decorations up in my new office space. I still need to change around some furniture, but am…
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Do you know what is harder than backing a camper trailer into its parking spot? Backing a camper trailer into its spot in the dark. Your mirrors are basically useless, and you’re driving blind. The only way I was able to manage getting it into position was by listening to my beloved wife. She was…
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1 John 3:16-18 “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children,…
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“Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day.” The first three days of our adventure were rainy. While we loaded: rain. While we drove to our first stop: rain. During the next leg of the trip: rain. Overnight: rain. And yes, God sends the rain in season and out. And yes, God provides rain…
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John 3:19-21. “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so…
My Home A Lighthouse 