What does it look like to build resilient relationships with those you love the most? Discover how to be a more effective, intentional, and Jesus-loving mentor & discipler. Register Now! Featuring 15 Jesus-loving visionaries and hosted by Mandy Pallock: Kirk Freeman, Pastor & Author, CrossBridge Community Church Enjoying Jesus Together: Weavin gDisciplemaking Into [...]

Have you ever been totally surprised by a conversation? One day I felt discouraged after an interaction with someone I deeply respected. Our conversation turned painful, leaving me surprised and hurt.  That night, as our family gathered in the kitchen to share the day's highs and lows, I brought it up in general terms. [...]

One of my favorite things about the week between Christmas and New Year's Day is the opportunity to reflect and dream: to reflect on the gifts of the previous year and dream God-sized dreams for the year to come. Here are 15 questions I'm prayerfully asking myself as 2024 wraps up and 2025 begins. [...]

This week, our tree transitioned from pieces in a cardboard box into a twinkling memorial to holy days. Some were ecstatic to decorate. Some wished they were doing something else. The parents were tired and only started because they knew it wouldn’t get easier with delay. We needed the lavishness of white lights and [...]

We each have a unique way of seeing the world, on this side of eternity. This week a friend’s glasses broke. And while he waited for his replacements to come in, he had to navigate a few days without his glasses. I have a light prescription that helps when I’m reading up close. I [...]

Coffee cup perched on the arm of the chair, I enjoy a morning on the back porch before the day heats up and August rages in with full heat. Yesterday our family went out with my brother, sister, and their respective families to celebrate a birthday. Sometimes the conversation rollicked around the table, with [...]