Somehow I blinked and June and July disappeared. I realized recently that it has been two whole months since I sent one of these Lampstand Letters. Where did June and July go?! Anyone else feel me on this?! For me, they were full. Really full. Over the past couple of months, with the help of my amazing team, we launched 16 Creators Clubs. There have been supplies to order, projects to prep, spaces to coordinate, emails to send, people to lead, problems to solve, and so many l

Are you wanting to read the bible but you have no idea where to start? Or maybe you have tried in the past and just want to know how to read the bible better? ... Because just like any genre of literature there are good ways to read the Bible and not so good ways to read it! For example, you wouldn’t read a manual like you would read a non-fiction book, and you wouldn't read a textbook like you would read a dictionary. The same is true for reading the bible. As a Christ-follo

Song is a powerful instrument because it is so basic to the allegiance of your heart. Worship songs for believers to walk in the light.

"The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light." Romans 13:12 (ESV) A few years ago, I participated in a "mud run" with my middle school students. Mud and running are two things at the bottom of my list of favorites. Soon after we began running, my shoes and clothes became heavy with mud, which made running and even walking difficult and quite frankly pretty gross. That feeling is a lot like works of dar

As I share what I have learned in looking at each attribute of the Fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control) my hope is that we can fix our eyes on a God who is the SOURCE of those attributes and as we do that we can desire him more deeply as we know him more fully. As we do this we are naturally drawn more deeper into a posture of willingness to make us more like Him. Therefore, we fix our eyes on HIM and bec

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22 (ESV) How do we rightly understand the fruit the Spirit bears in us? Now that we understand the context of Galatians and of chapter five (see my last blog post), it is important for us to correctly understand the fruit that only the Spirit can bring forth. It was said in a podcast that I listened to that

Through a conversation with a friend of mine, I explained to her that God had laid it on my heart to create a collection of handmade goods fully lettered by me to teach the gospel. She said immediately that it would be really fun to create a Fruit of the Spirit collection. This conversation happened in December. Six months later, I am elated to bring you the Lovely Little Light Fruit of the Spirit Collection. When starting this collection in February, I wanted to be intention