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Photo Credit @Bethanyjaynephotography  There are three kinds of lasts. The kind you don't know are the last. The kind you suspect might be. And the kind you know without a doubt are coming.  To this day I don't know when the last time was that we went through the whole bedtime routine...stories, prayers, kisses on foreheads. It was never intentional. It just faded slowly. I'm not sure when the boys stopped playing with the Thomas the Tank Engine set or watching Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. I didn't know I was closing a chapter when we sat at our last Little League game. The boys just never played again.  photo credit Emily Strunk I didn't know when I cleaned up and locked the children's church classroom in early 2020 that I would never be having children's church in there again and that ministry from that week forward would look forever changed. I didn't know when we were celebrating our last Christmas with Susan. Or when I was speaking to Pastor Dav...

  Recently, during one of our Sunday discussions at The Table, I was asked, "What does the Bible mean by love?" And I think this has been a big question lately. Because this conversation aside, everything has a little bit of a political spin on it in American Christianity lately. And so, the Christians who lean left spend a lot of time talking about how God is love. And, yes, I am probably mostly one of those left leaning Christians talking about love. And I will stand by the fact that God is love and the entire story told in this collection of 56 books is actually meant to be a love story. And that when we do see anger there, it usually has to do with a lack of love. But then for Christians who lean right, there's a concern that maybe a worldly definition of love has taken over. When the Bible says love and the world says love they're talking about two different kinds of things. And that sometimes love can be firm or have boundaries. And I believe there's truth t...