Dear Father, Help us to be imitators of you, because we are your children.  Let us be filled with love.  Forgive us and cleanse us of immorality, impurity and greed. Forgive us of any obscene stories, foolish conversations and coarse jokes.  Instead, I pray our mouths would be full of thankfulness to you!    Lord give [...]

This week, we pray along with Paul… When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his [...]

I took my kids to church camp in North Carolina. The two teens were getting ready for their service as junior counselors, so I dropped them off a day early. The younger boys and I had an afternoon, evening, and the next morning before dropping of the 10-year-old for his first camp experience. We were [...]