Week 2 (Dec 3-Dec 9) Read Matthew 1:18-25. Mary and Joseph were engaged to be married, but they got a surprise. Imagine how that must have felt for both Mary and Joseph. What kinds of difficult conversations do you think they had? Everyone has expectations for how they think life will go...
Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? We received the Target toy catalog in the mail a few weeks ago. It is always an exciting day in our house. The kids have been looking through it, circling the things they would like-- dreaming of the GIFTS they will receive on Christmas...
Week 1 (Nov 26-Dec 2) Read John 1:1-13. John refers to Jesus as “the light.” Why do you think John chose that as one of the ways for us to understand Jesus and the difference He makes in the world? In verse 12, John shares an amazing truth about those who receive Jesus. What is...
Over the last week I have watched my social media feed become more divided and filled with toxicity than I ever wanted to see. Our nation is trying to move forward with a contentious election while certain people are using it to embolden their own evil hatred of others who are...
Visiting NYC this fall, I was reminded that it is important to fight fair while at the same time, not wasting energy to fight when it isn’t necessary. In Grand Central Station, I saw three men react in anger—shoving a chair into a lady simply because she said the chair was...
Photo: Young Life’s first ever event at Cherokee Trail High School, where 30 high school students came and heard (possibly for the first time) that God is for them. My Story: I started going to Young Life as a middle schooler and continued all throughout High School. While in Young Life...
Have you been following this election? Or the national anthem controversy? Or foreign hacking stuff? Or Ryan Lochte? We’re not even through 2016 and we’ve had a mountain of drama. And that’s not even including the stuff in our own families, neighborhoods and workplaces...
Today I knew I needed/wanted to write some kind of encouraging words to you all. I sat down and started typing and just couldn’t come up with something that had any meaning to it. So I prayed and just asked God to give me something…whatever it is that he wanted me to write to you...
It’s fall. Officially, the season of fall began on September 22 this year. It’s nice that, in someone’s mind, those things have such specific and measurable start dates. But that’s not how we experience seasons, is it? Usually we only realize that one season is over once...
kids@ehills has some exciting updates that we’d like you to know about. This fall, we started The Gospel Project for Kids, a Christ-centered Bible study resource that looks at the big picture of God's story—the story of redemption through Jesus Christ. Each week, kids of all ages...
