My Mom

Posted by Jeff Olson on May 11, 2012

This Sunday I will celebrate my first Mother’s Day without a mother. After a year-long illness, my dear mom recently passed on to be with Jesus.

Mom was eighty.

Not only will I miss mom terribly, I found myself feeling sad over all the things she was never able to enjoy... Read More

The Final Enemy

Posted by Tim Jackson on April 27, 2012

“The last enemy to be destroyed is death.” (1 Cor. 15:26)

Those words have been stuck in my head these last two weeks–and the reminders are everywhere.

As you read in last week’s beautiful post by my fellow blogger Allison about the unexpected death... Read More

Born to die

Posted by Jeff Olson on December 15, 2011

We are well into that special time of the year where our focus turns to the celebration of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:1-20). The world has never been the same since that supernatural night in Bethlehem so many years ago.

Once, however, you get past His birth in Bethlehem, the Gospel records... Read More

Compassionate Friends

Posted by Allison Stevens on December 7, 2011

I talked with a friend today about the death of her son.  She’s dreading the holidays without him. She and her husband are consumed with thoughts about him and seeing him again someday.

I remembered that I had read an article in the newspaper about an organization called The... Read More

A season of loss

Posted by Tim Jackson on August 15, 2011

I haven’t written this blog for a couple of weeks.

I’ve been gone.

It’s been a rainy season for me and my family.



“When it rains, it pours,” was a saying my Grandma would often use when things were piling up and we were... Read More

A Lesson from Harry Potter

Posted by Jeff Olson on July 21, 2011

The final movie in the Harry Potter series finally hit the theater this past weekend. I’ll admit, I’m a huge fan.

Although the series is a fantasy, the parallels to real life are stunning, especially the epic battle between good and evil.

Lord Voldemort, the... Read More

A Better Day Coming

Posted by Allison Stevens on June 27, 2011

My heart is heavy this morning. One of my best friends has cancer and doesn’t have a hopeful prognosis.  According to her doctors, she’ll be lucky to live out the rest of this year.

Another friend’s father and brother were killed in an auto accident last night. I can only imagine... Read More

Funerals vs. Parties

Posted by Tim Jackson on June 17, 2011

Do you ever read things in the Bible that you just find baffling? I mean, you know what the words say, but you just don’t get it? I sure do.

And then, after some time has past and some things change in your life journey and you reread one of those puzzling passages and go, “Oh,... Read More

Unexpected Journeys

Posted by Jeff Olson on June 16, 2011

Unexpected journeys. Little and big…life is full of them. A quick trip to the store turns into a car accident and a long night in the emergency room. The drive home from work turns into into break down on the highway and a long wait for tow truck. A call on the cell phone turns into the news... Read More

In a waiting room

Posted by Tim Jackson on June 1, 2011

I hate to wait.

Invariably I’m the guy who gets stuck in what I thought was the shortest check out line at the supermarket and then watched as the cashier needs to change the tape in the register, or the 2 items the person in front of me needs “a price check on isle 4!”... Read More
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