Idolatry of Image

We've been doing a series at our weekly meetings about idolatry. Chris and I did a joint talk about the idol of image this past week. (You can click HERE to download any of our weekly meeting talks). I think God is helping me process through a lot of the deep deep sin issues in my life. I am thankful He doesn't throw everything at me at once, but that He continues to help me work towards total freedom in Christ.

Even sharing some of this with our students this past week was rather freeing. If I am totally honest with myself, the reason I often worry so much about how I look is because I do want to impress people and for people to think I'm pretty so they will like me more. Ha ha, for some reason when I say it out loud (or type it in this case) it sounds pretty ridiculous. It seems like the movie (can't think of the name) where the guy tells himself things like "people like you, you are a winner". I do want Christ to be glorified in me, but for that to happen I need to stop focusing so much on ME, ME, ME. It is moments like this I realize how much I need God's grace, mercy and forgiveness because so often I take Christ off the throne of my life and put all these other things in His place. All I can say is: I'm glad God's not done with me yet!

Family Photos

We are thinking of getting some real (as in we aren't taking them ourselves) family photos sometime in the near future...but until then we hold the camera out and hope for the best. We captured these after church yesterday.

The Ultimate Pumpkin Waffles Recipe

I've been having some rough nights with Rachel getting up over and over, so this morning after another rough night Chris let me sleep in! Since 9:45 am is brunch time I figured it was the perfect opportunity to make something with the Libby's can of pumpkin sitting in my cupboard. This is the recipe I found and our entire family loved the recipe! I don't have a belgum waffle maker, but it worked just fine in our regular waffle maker.

If you like pumpkin waffles, or want to try them I suggest clicking HERE!

YUMMY!