Seeking the Symphony

The word symphony comes from the Greek word symphonia which means agreement or concord of sound—in other words, harmony. And that’s what we all want in our homes, right? But the reality of our world is that discord happens. Families fight. Siblings squabble. Coworkers Clash. God created a beautiful world of harmony, but sin came into the world and jacked it all up, and murder began with the second generation of humans. On our own, we are a disaster.

But, with God—the great Conductor of our souls, the Composer of our lives—everything changes. Read More.

Another convention in the books!

We had a wonderful time at the 41st Annual Virginia Homeschool Convention in Richmond! We always love serving with our friends the Lewises and the Tullys (the Lewises are pictured), but because we homeschool, this event is particularly special to us.

On Thursday, we co-hosted FamilyLife’s NEW Art of Marriage for quite a few couples, and on Saturday we led a session on making your marriage a priority! Both were well received.

But our favorite part? Getting to pray with so many people! Here, we’re praying for our friends from Camp Rudolph, but we lost count of how many people we prayed with over the weekend—and that’s the way we like it!

We’re already looking forward to next year!

Hidden Work (Part 2): 5 Steps to Strengthening Your Spiritual Core

In last week’s blog post, we talked about how our spiritual core strength—or lack thereof—affects our walk with the Lord and as a result, our ministry to others. A weak physical core affects our whole bodies and eventually begins to cripple our ability to move effectively; I can attest to this personally. In the same way, when we fail to do the deep spiritual work necessary to keep our souls “in shape,” everything we do is affected. In other words, our walk with Jesus starts getting real wonky.

It wouldn’t be very kind of us, though, to tell you what the problem is without giving you a solution. Therefore, here are the steps God has been working out in us to help develop us spiritually.

Hidden Work (Part 1): Why a Strong Spiritual Core Matters

Where and how we walk is a frequent theme in God’s Word, but what I’ve realized recently is that we’re not walking where we should or how we should unless we’re willing to do the hidden work of deep spiritual formation. If we want to walk in public ministry, we have to be willing to take ourselves through intimate, private ministry. That having been said, this revelation came to me in kind of a weird way.

A WEAK CORE

At the end of December, Josiah and I finally decided we had to make an investment in our family’s health and re-institute our gym membership. We tried working out from home for a long time, but it just wasn’t working for us.

Marriage Isn’t Easy

Can we be honest? Marriage isn’t easy.

“But those who marry will have troubles in this life…” 1 Corinthians 7:28

We feel like it should be though, don’t we?

Most of us entered into marriage with some kind of expectation – hope overwhelmed the reality of that verse. Surely, it can’t be that difficult, we think….