The kids sang news songs to the LORD during their Christmas concert with the Music Makers at Webster Bible Church.

This photo doesn’t do Champ justice.
He sang his heart out and loved it to pieces.

because everyone can get in on the experiments!

because everyone can get in on the experiments!

While Mama worked and Daddy shuttled kids around to choir practice and gymnastics, Angel hung out with Nan. They had breakfast with Santa. Too bad I never prepped Angel on who/what Santa was. Now she thinks he is this guy that hangs out at “Nanny’s West-a-want,” [the Elks Club] and gives away toys. She had a good time.

I feel like in the U.S. we have this whole poison of “church shopping” and that is something actually Satan uses to try to destroy the church as a whole. I maintain 100% that church is about God and that we all need to train ourselves to worship IN SPITE OF how things are “packaged.”

For example, when someone in Bangledesh, or Sri Lanka, or China first accepts Christ, they don’t then start to worry about, “Am I a Baptist? A Wesleyan? A Pentecostal? A non-denominational evangelical?” NO. They are in awe over the living God who saves, and worship HIM. They’ll go to whatever teacher they can find and worship God with whatever music they learn of or create….

Here in the U.S. [and all of the west, really,] we are all about “the church experience,” and I believe it is sinful.

It is our duty to corporally worship God. To have preferences is a luxury and one that damages our impact. People become so defensive of their “style” that non-believers see our differences more than what makes us the same.

Corporal worship – it shouldn’t matter what music is sung, or banners are hung, or how and when communion is passed, or what people are wearing. We make such a big deal about the trappings when all that should matter is, “Is the message doctrinally sound? Does the music honor God?”


It is up to us to make worship meaningful. But the point is that it is meaningful to GOD… not us.

Parents… Have you read “Parenting in the Pew?” It is excellent and it reminds us that raising godly kids is not about having them entertained. It is about having them hearers and doers of the Word.

Candyland with Aunt Betty and Uncle Dave.

Skeezix is not into hair. She isn’t in to fussing, she isn’t into sitting still, she isn’t into getting dolled-up. She likes to brush it herself and slide it behind her ear.
What can I say? If I had any desire to play “dress-up,” with my daughters, it wouldn’t work. Angel’s hair is way too fine.

But today, Skeezix had cooking class and she can’t have her hair hanging. Gross. So I convinced her to sit still. Look what we came up with at 9AM?