My sister April and her husband Lalo …
(Get ready! This is where things get tricky!)
who is my wife’s brother …
(I’ll give you a minute to do the math. It’s not incest, I promise!)
… are here visiting from Virginia for Christmas. They have three little girls ages 4, 2, and 4-months. Yesterday I took their two oldest daughters along with my two to McDonald’s. It was such a blast!
They were very excited about eating their chicken nugget happy meals,
They have also enjoyed coming to my office to see my turtle and get “Keen-E” (candy) from Uncle Kevin’s closet. We have been having a lot of fun hanging out together.

Received this Stranger Than Fiction Article from the e-Journal of Student Ministries: 
I have been pondering, studying, and thinking a lot about heaven, life after death, and “life after life after death” (as N.T. Write calls it). I have been studying the Scriptures, early church beliefs, church tradition, as well as more recent understandings. 

10 Minute Moments is a new devotional book by Kurt Johnson designed especially for Jr. High students. I decided to put the book to the test by giving it to Olivia, a 7th grade students who has been following Jesus for about a year. After a few weeks I asked her for her honest feedback. Here it is … raw, unedited, and straight from the mouth of the target audience:

