From Our Backyards

We've been reminded lately how God has everything planned out and knows the end result. We have been working through a furnace issue at our new house in Rochester. We've lived here a little over a year, but the past couple of months the furnace hasn...

I LOVE opportunities to be humbled (since "God gives grace to the humble"!), and I had another one today.
The house seemed cold this morning, and when I checked the thermostat at about 7:30 it was only at 60 degrees. We keep it cold at night, so I figured it was still warming up. At 8:30, it was still at 60 degrees, so I went down to check the furnace. The...

I've been searching for a good countdown to Christmas calendar for a few years. And this year I decided to make my own. I wanted it to have 25 different pieces from a nativity that the kids could pull out each day of December until Christmas. I will...

We made the mistake of trying to teach our older two kids about grace too early. A couple of times when they deserved consequences, we gave "grace" and withheld the painful consequences. Our intentions were good; we were eager to make the gospel plain...