I have a confession to make, part of the reason I chose to journal the New Testament over the next year is because I am enrolled in an 8 month class for Bible teachers and I knew it was going to be a lot of work in addition to creating monthly journal plans. I was doing what self help gurus suggest, thinking of my future self, and I’m glad I did because this class is a lot so far! However, we also serve a gracious and benevolent Heavenly Father, I say that because already thi

Happy New Year!   Does the New Year fill you with a sense of dread or does it energize and excite you? I have always had mixed feelings about the New Year. As I said last year, I gave up resolutions a long time ago but I do love the idea of planning for the coming year. Resolutions, to me, are rooted in giving something up, subtraction rather than addition, and frankly, most of us don’t like giving things up. Because of this, I loved it when our pastor spoke last Sunday about