CrossFit series at Life Church

I'm very excited about this series of messages! It's actually more than just messages, it's a Faith Fitness Challenge! Every day we post the "Workout of Day" to challenge us to "Take up our Cross" and "Follow Jesus" by putting Action to our Faith!

Workout of the Day: 5.31.13

Review all of the memory verses from Crossfit. Purpose to memorize ALL of them. Download a PDF with all of the verses atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit

Confess a sin that you have kept secret to a fellow believer of the gender and ask them to pray for you and keep you accountable. (james5:16)

Read Proverbs 31 and Mark 8- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at

Workout of the Day: 5.30.13

Review Mark 8:35-36. Memorize it if you haven't. Tell someone how you will apply it to your life.

Every week, we have asked you to set some money aside in an envelope. Now, take the money from your envelope and give all of it to someone to whom the Holy Spirit leads you. You could take it to a store and give it to a stranger, or send it in the mail to someone that the Lord puts on your heart. As you give it, let the person know that the Lord led you to them. You can even ask if they would like prayer for something. 

Read Proverbs 30 and Acts 3 AND 4- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the three chapters. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Workout of the Day: 5.29.13

Review Mark 8:35-36. Memorize it if you haven't. Tell someone how you will apply it to your life.

Go to http://www.lifechurch.org/#/about-us/pastors  As you read our pastors' bios, ask the Holy Spirit how you should pray for them. Then write an encouraging email or letter to at least one of them. 

Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to someone that you can pray for and tell about Jesus. Find that person, pray for them and tell them about Jesus. 

Read Proverbs 29- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Workout of the Day: 5.28.13

Review all of the memory verses from Crossfit. Brush up on the ones that theHoly Sprit leads you to. 

Only be positive in everything that you say. Meditate on Psalms 141:3.

Invite at least one person to church today.

Read Proverbs 28- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

#LifeCrossFit Memorial Day!


Workout of the Day: 5.27.13

Review Matthew 6:19-21- Are you living it out? 

During your Memorial Day events, talk to someone about Life Church's Crossfit. Why are you doing it? What has the Holy Spirit been saying to you?

Take at least 5 minutes in prayer to thank God for our country and the men and women who have given their lives defending our freedom. If you know anyone who has a lost a family member while serving, ask the Holy Spirit how you can sincerely thank them for their sacrifice.

Read Proverbs 27 and Acts 6 AND 7- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the three chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


#LifeCrossFit Wednesday!


Workout of the Day: 5.22.13

Review Colossians 3:2-3- Continue memorizing it. What are you setting your mind on? 

Go to http://lifechurch.org/#/outreach and ask God how He wants you to help our neighbors in Moore, OK. Continue to pray for the missing, survivors, families and rescue workers that are walking through this tragedy. 

Fast something today. Deny yourself of something (food, coffee, TV, media etc…). Substitute the fasted thing by focusing on God. If you are new to fasting, skipping a meal and spending that time with Jesus is a great way to start. (Fasting Guide at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Read Proverbs 22 and Romans 8- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )




#LifeCrossFit Monday!


Workout of the Day: 5.20.13

Memorize Colossians 3:2-3- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life. 

Spend 10 minutes in silence (no speaking, music, gadgets, other people, etc…) and listen to the Holy Spirit.

Consciously ask God to lead you in every decision and action today.

Set some money aside in an envelope. Pray about it, and ask the Lord for an amount. You will find out what to do with it later.
(You can double up if you want to since we missed last week.)

Read Proverbs 20- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



#LifeCrossFit Friday!


Workout of the Day: 5.17.13

Memorize John 10:27- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Laugh with someone for a few minutes. (Proverbs 17:22)

Pray for our governing officials whether you agree with them or not.

Read Proverbs 17 and John 10- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


#LifeCrossFit Thursday!


Workout of the Day: 5.16.13

Review Proverbs 11:24-25- What are you doing to apply it to your life?

Search www.lifechurch.org/outreach/short-term-trips Pray about going on a mission trip or giving towards a trip. If you feel led to pursue a trip tell someone and email international@getlife.info for more info.

Schedule a time on your calendar for you to spend 30 minutes in prayer in the Olathe Campus 24/7 Prayer Room.

Read Proverbs 16- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



#LifeCrossFit Wednesday!

Workout of the Day: 5.15.13

Memorize Proverbs 11:24-25- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life. 

Tell the person behind the register (drive thru, cashier, etc…) that Jesus loves them. Pray for them for the rest of the day.

Read Proverbs 15- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



#LifeCrossFit Saturday!


Workout of the Day: 5.4.13

Review Hebrews 12:2 and James 1:19- Quote them to someone and tell them what it means to you. 

Invite at least one person to church today.

Go out of your way to bless someone in an unexpected way.

Read Proverbs 4 and Hebrews 12- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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#LifeCrossFit Friday!


Workout of the Day: 5.3.13

Review Hebrews 12:2 and James 1:19- Continue to memorize and apply them.

Ask the Lord for 5 people you can encourage today. You can speak it, text it, email it, share it on Facebook, etc…

Set some money aside in an envelope. Pray about it, and ask the Lord for an amount. You will find out what to do with it later.

Take 5 minutes to pray for this weekend's services.

Read Proverbs 3- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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#LifeCrossFit Thursday!

Workout of the Day: 5.2.13

Review Hebrews 12:2- Continue to memorize and apply it.

Push yourself to the next level with whatever you would normally do for physical exercise. If you don't usually do anything- walk. If you already exercise- take it up a notch. Meditate on 1 Timothy 4:8

Read Proverbs 2- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Father God, we want to be JESUS’ DISCIPLES! 
We CHOOSE to TAKE UP our CROSS and FOLLOW His EXAMPLE. 
We will Let Jesus take the LEAD in our lives. 
We will FOCUS on Jesus, and LISTEN for His Voice.
As we do the WORKOUT OF THE DAY this week, we INVITE and EMBRACE the work of your HOLY SPIRIT to produce real TRANSFORMATION in our lives! 
In the amazing name of JESUS we pray…AMEN.


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#LifeCrossFit Wednesday!

Workout of the Day: 5.1.13

Memorize Hebrews 12:2- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Ask the Lord which Life Church Serve Team you should serve on. Get more info and sign up at http://lifechurch.org/#/connect/serve

Read Proverbs 1 and Luke 5- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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#LifeCrossFit Tuesday!


Workout of the Day: 4.30.13

Review James 1:19- Continue to memorize and apply it. 

Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to someone that you can pray for and tell about Jesus. Find that person, pray for them and tell them about Jesus. 

Read Proverbs 30- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

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#LifeCrossFit Monday!


Workout of the Day: 4.29.13

Review James 1:19- Continue to memorize and apply it. 

Only be positive in everything that you say. Meditate on Psalms 141:3

Read Proverbs 29 and James 4- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )




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#LifeCrossFit Sunday!

Workout of the Day: 4.28.13

Memorize James 1:19- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Spend 15 minutes in silence (no speaking, music, other people, etc…) and listen to the Holy Spirit.

Read Proverbs 28- S.O.A.P. Method (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Mark 8:34 NLT

Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me.

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#LifeCrossFit Saturday!


Workout of the Day: 4.27.13

Review Philippians 2:3-5- Continue to memorize and apply it. 

Serve another neighbor- not the same one from last weekend. Deliver food, cookies, etc…, yard work, watch kids, take trash to the curb, etc…

Read Proverbs 27 and Romans 8- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



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#LifeCrossFit Friday!


Workout of the Day: 4.26.13

Memorize Philippians 2:5 - Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

In person, invite the five people that you prayed for yesterday to come to church this weekend.

Fast something today. Deny yourself of something (food, coffee, TV, media etc…). Substitute the fasted thing by focusing on God. If you are new to fasting, skipping a meal and spending that time with Jesus is a great way to start. (Fasting Guide at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Set some money aside in an envelope. Pray about it, and ask the Lord for an amount. You will find out what to do with it later.

Read Proverbs 26- S.O.A.P (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



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#LifeCrossFit Thursday!

Workout of the Day: 4.25.13

Memorize Philippians 2:4- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Write down the names of 5 people that don't know Jesus. Pray for them all day.

Read the story of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). How will you apply it to your life?

Read Proverbs 25- S.O.A.P (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.24.13

Review Philippians 2:3- Continue to memorize and apply it. 

If you are married, take some time to bless your spouse with words of encouragement and an unexpected act of service.
If you are single, pray for your future spouse and bless a friend with words of encouragement and an unexpected act of service

Read Proverbs 24 and Matthew 7- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

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Workout of the Day: 4.23.13


Review Philippians 2:3- Continue to memorize it.

Fast something today. Deny yourself of something (food, coffee, TV, media etc…). Substitute the fasted thing by focusing on God. If you are new to fasting, skipping a meal and spending that time with Jesus is a great way to start. (Fasting Guide at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Read Proverbs 23- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.22.13

Review Philippians 2:3- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Ask the Lord for 5 people you can encourage today. You can speak it, text it, email it, share it on Facebook, etc…

Read Proverbs 22 and James 3- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )
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Workout of the Day: 4.21.13

Memorize Philippians 2:3
Take 30 minutes to have solitude (unplug) with the Lord. Reflect on the weekend message.

Read Proverbs 21- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.20.13

Review Matthew 28:19-20 and Mark 8:34-35

Invite at least one person to church today

Serve one of your neighbors (deliver food, cookies, etc…, yard work, watch kids, take trash to the curb, etc…)

Take 5 minutes to pray for this weekend's services.

Read Proverbs 20- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.19.13

Review Mark 8:34-35. Do you have all of it memorized? If not, git 'er done.

Invite at least one person to church today

Set some money aside in an envelope. Pray about it, and ask the Lord for an amount. You will find out what to do with it later.

Read Proverbs 19- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.17.13

Memorize Matthew 28:19-20- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Search www.lifechurch.org/outreach/short-term-trips 
Pray about going on a mission trip or giving towards a trip. If you feel led to pursue a trip tell someone and email international@getlife.info for more info.

Read Proverbs 17- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.16.13

Review Mark 8:35- Continue memorizing it and talking about it

Invite 2 people to church today. Use an invite card if you want to. 

Read Proverbs 16 and Matthew 6- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

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Workout of the Day: 4.15.13

Review Mark 8:35- Continue memorizing it.

Search www.lifechurch.org/outreach Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to a missionary to pray for. Pray at least 10 minutes. Email a word of encouragement to that missionary. 

Read Proverbs 15- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



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Father God, we are so GRATEFUL for JESUS! 
We CHOOSE to TAKE UP our CROSS and FOLLOW YOU. 
We REJECT SELFISHNESS and CHOOSE to live SELFLESSLY!

As we do the WORKOUT OF THE DAY this MONTH, we 
INVITE and EMBRACE the work of your HOLY SPIRIT to produce real TRANSFORMATION in our lives! 
In the amazing name of JESUS we pray…AMEN

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Workout of the Day: 4.14.13

Memorize Mark 8:35- Share with someone what it means to you and how you plan to apply it to your life.

Read Proverbs 14 and James 2- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse between the two chapters. (S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )


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Workout of the Day: 4.13.13

Review Mark 8:34

Go out of your way to bless someone in an unexpected way.

Read Proverbs 13- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



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Workout of the Day: 4.12.13 (Friday)

Review Mark 8:34- Have you lived it out this week?

Set some money aside in an envelope. Pray about it, and ask the Lord for an amount. You will find out what to do with it later.

Invite one person to church this weekend.

Read Proverbs 12- S.O.A.P. Method. (S.O.A.P info atwww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



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Workout of the Day: 4.11.13

Review Mark 8:34

Fast something today. Deny yourself of something (food, coffee, TV, media etc…). Substitute the fasted thing by focusing on God. If you are new to fasting, skipping a meal and spending that time with Jesus is a great way to start. 
(Fasting Guide at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )

Read Proverbs 11 and Matthew 5 - Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse from one of the two chapters. 
(S.O.A.P info at www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit )



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Workout of the Day: 4.10.13

Ask the Lord for 5 people you can encourage today. You can speak it, text it, email it, share it on Facebook, etc…

Review Mark 8:34- Continue memorizing it and talking about it

Read Proverbs 10- S.O.A.P. Method.

For more about the S.O.A.P. Method, go towww.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit


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Day 2 Work of the Day: 4.9.13

Write some goals that you want to accomplish this month as you get cross fit.

Review Mark 8:34- Continue memorizing it.

Read James 1- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse.

Read Proverbs 9- Use the S.O.A.P. Method to focus on one verse.

For more about CROSSFIT at Life Church and workout tools, go to www.lifechurch.org/#/events/crossfit


Here is the first Workout of the Day:

Back to School

Back to School.... that is the message series that Clint began at church this weekend…. It was a great reminder that we never grow out of our need to have a mindset of learning and growth.

Thank you Holy Spirit that you never stop teaching me… day after day… through much struggle at times from the demands of daily life. God has had us all in the refining fire… a place of sacrifice and serving to another level than we had before due to the demands of having toddlers running free in the house. It has forced us all up on our toes away from our normal rhythms and comfort zones.

 With all the stretching we’ve encountered; our family finally came to a big crossroads this summer. We all needed to stop looking back to the way it “used to be”…. To the “easier” days our comfort-driven-selves daydreamed about… the good ole days when we could play games as a family… have conversations without constant interruptions… put your glass down without it being knocked over…. You know….”those easier days”. Well, this summer, through a family meeting time of prayer and challenge, each of us finally had to intentionally internalize the fact that we are no longer a family of 6, we are a family of 8… with all the different dynamics that brings!

 Although challenging at times, 6 can never be 8, and 8 can never again be 6. We are being transformed! We had to re-define what that really looks like and who we would become now as a team. Asking ourselves the questions: What is the culture of the Sprague Tribe home?… and more importantly…what did we want it to be? And then finally, What each of us must bring to the table in order to help create that culture. Thus the re-working of a family mission statement began.

 Sometimes it is hard to believe it’s been 18 months since we brought Justus and Hannah Mercy home from Ethiopia… we have come so far, but at times I feel we have so far to go. So many times, dealing with the broken places in our two adopted “Littles” over these past months have served to reveal the broken places still in me. How thankful I am for the steadfast love of the Lord… whose mercies are new every morning.

Today I am posting an excerpt from the Blog named “Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet” written by Sara Hagerty. It’s one of those blogs that always seems to speak right to me in a cut to the heart fashion…. to so clearly articulate in words my daily experience/struggle so often. I’ve never met Sara, but I thank the Lord for her voice that has ministered to me time and time and time again in our adoption journey.

In the blog Sara posted this past week, she’s talking about dealing with her biological daughters struggle to love her adopted siblings…ample opportunities of trial and fail… only to begin again. I relate so well, as this has been the path all of us in our home have walked for months now. There are great days and there are challenging days as in any family with lots of people… there are always lots of opportunities to grow in your love walk and patience. Anyway, I hope posting this excerpt of her last post encourages you the way that it encouraged me… and if you haven’t read Sara’s blog…. It really is so so real…. And so so good. Here goes….

  “…Earlier that week, I asked Him to grow my love. My prayer was much like hers. My family stretched me, each in their own way. They rubbed and pulled and pressed parts of me I’d like to pretend weren’t there. For once, I wanted my actions to stretch further than my words. I wanted to be pushed, in love, not to recoil inside when they got under my skin. 

I wanted a new depth of love, if even just a junior version of long suffering love. I wanted the love that leaves stretch marks, the kind that thrives behind closed doors — without an eye, but His, to witness or an accolade to affirm. 

 So I asked Him. Grow my love, my long-suffering love. 

 And like most times, an ask like this, charged with a private commitment, does more to me than simply become a personal treatise. It calls my attention to the chasm between that for which I was made and the place where I now live. 

 Hours later, as if it had been simmering underneath all those words and that great big ask, I fell. Well, I had a series of falls. The words of my prayer became like grand and empty platitudes against the backdrop of my gross inability to love. 

My heart was grumpy, my frustration mounting and, to top it off, I saw the objects of this love for who they weren’t, not for who He was making them to be. 

And when confronted, I was just like her. I saw the gap between myself and those words I had prayed. First, I justified. I have so much to manage! kicked-off the argument in my mind — which gave permission to all the thoughts that followed. Four kids in two years! – that same old line that lassos my heart, of course I’d respond this way. Too much on my plate! I muttered to myself. Each defense, another plank in the wall around my heart. And the gap between those words I prayed and the life I was living, widened. 

 Then, I awakened to my sin. It was too obvious to avoid (He was kind). 

And I flopped, for a few minutes, to the other end of the spectrum. The place where she’d also find herself. I keep messing up. Over and over and over again my heart movements and my mind’s dance revealed those words, that prayer, to be so far from where my feet were really walking these days. Neither response, though, was the one He called forth. 

The sin in her, just like the sin in me, serves a purpose beyond stirring up self-justification or sending me into shame. 

 Sin — the awareness of sin, hers and mine — is an invitation to press my wound against His. It’s a chance to behold the God-Man who, in perfection, chose to nail that part of Himself which wore our flesh against a block of wood, fashioned for death, so that this tree might, three days later, be the representation of my life. 

My life, hours after that prayer, when my words were like vapor against my actions that spoke another reality. You see, that day and the days that followed marked movement. Perhaps, the growth spurt for which I’d been asking. I’d prayed big and He revealed the gap and that gap beckoned me to press my oozing wound against the only thing that could heal it. 

Those who are forgiven much, love much. 

 The very love I had asked for in that prayer came in through the back door. Not through my efforts to make my feet fill out a vision too big for me, but through my repentance … when all my efforts failed miserably. Some of my sweetest communion has come at the foot of that block of wood. 

Could it be that sin, my worst sin (in my mind) — the kind that comes just after I’ve committed to do the opposite — is my launch pad for growth, when it’s turned into repentance? 

 A repentant heart is an opportunity for this day’s death to be a resurrection. 

I don’t need to pray smaller prayers; I need to see myself as I truly am: small at the foot of a very big cross. What is this kingdom He’s contrived? Who is this God who takes my rancid flesh, at its point of greatest failure, and turns it into a growth spurt? 

 Repentance doesn’t take me back to zero; it advances my heart. 

 For her to grow, not just beyond these moments where she fails, but through them, she will need to know the Man she meets when she repents. 

A lifestyle of repentance – “I was wrong. Will you forgive me?” – is perhaps our greatest impartation to our girls, because behind repentance is communion with the one who truly will turn our flesh to glory. All to come, if our weak knees bow. But I can’t take her there if I don’t go myself….” 

 Today, before my 19 year old daughter left for the airport, she affirmed me. She basically told me that the best thing Daddy and I gave to her was the example of the realness of our relationship with God, our humility in apologizing when we were wrong, and our passion to follow Jesus. So even though I’ve spent countless hours reading stuff to help me parent my adopted kids and am still feeling so inadequate to do this, today I’m reminding myself that the Holy Spirit is the best teacher…. That I can’t fail if I don’t quit… I just need to LISTEN and FOLLOW his lead one day at a time. I love Back to School!!

 “We can know before the battle begins that we will win, if we keep our eyes on Christ.”