Praying 101

Last night we investigated our typical prayers – what we do, and what we say, when we pray. Often the first thing we do to prepare to pray is close our eyes. Why do we do this? From my very brief research into this, I could not find any biblical reference to people closing their […]

Spiritual Training – Part 2

Last night’s lesson was a follow-up to a lesson from May that can be read HERE. We reviewed your knowledge and experience with training. You train for multiple things simultaneously – sports, music, school, 4-H, physical goals, obtaining your driver’s license, etc. Many of you train others as well – little siblings, livestock, pets, teammates, […]

Fatherly Advice

During Youth I usually give Fatherly (God’s) advice, but on Father’s Days, I give fatherly (my) advice. This is the list I’ve developed over the past couple of years. Enjoy! There are always more options than you are aware of. When you face a decision / crisis / challenge, don’t feel trapped by the limited […]

Mission Trip 2026 – Missouri

This year, we partnered with my friend’s church, combining our Youth groups to serve together. We had 19 from County Line (Andrews, IN) and 7 from River Oaks (Foristell, MO). We began our trip with a send-off at church – then loaded into the van and bus shown behind my head. We met up with […]

Spiritual Training

I agreed to run a 1/2 marathon with my daughter in September. I can only run about 3 miles right now. So, I need to train. I’m two weeks into the training plan shown below. Each day until late September, I’ll be doing something to prepare for the race. You know what its like to […]

Winter Retreat 2026

Last weekend, ten of us took a three day winter retreat, staying at my parents home in southern Indiana. Our theme for the weekend was “big questions”. Everyone brought a big question they had about God and we explored those throughout the weekend. Many of the questions didn’t have satisfactory or definitive answers, so we […]

Support Team

“Jason you have a text”, that’s how Amy woke me up at 2:04 am this Friday morning. One of you needed to talk and I was happy to do so. But, I wouldn’t have had the honor of doing so had Amy not woke me up – I slept right through it. Amy supported you […]

The Bible

Diem hosted us at her home last night – turned out to be an all-girl crew (except for me). Diem provided some yummy snacks and made us feel right at home – thank you! I asked you to bring a physical Bible – and we started by everyone sharing about their Bible. Each had a […]

Wordless speech

I remember my dreams – each morning when I wake up, I can run through many of the dreams I had during the night. One dream last week was particularly informative. In my dream, I could read all the messages we send by how we present ourselves to the world. Why we choose a particular […]

Confessions

It’s fall break for most of you. Time to unwind, spend time with friends and family, maybe take a fun trip, visit a pumpkin patch, go through corn mazes and haunted houses, and confess your sins to one another! We are practicing the spiritual discipline of confession with each other Thursday evening. That’s not a […]

Yard Work

Last night we had a service project rather than a lesson – helping a 94 year old with some yardwork. The vegetation around her home had grown up, so we pruned trees and bushes, weeded flower beds, and sprayed weeds. The hot, humid, yet happy workers (plus Amy, who took the picture). Thank you everyone […]