Lenten Reading Plan: Proverbs and Song of Solomon

I’ve known Pastor Koch since we were kids attending Lutheran school. His dad was my 5th and 6th-grade teacher who was committed to getting me to spell people and beautiful correctly by the time I left his classroom. His mom was my 1st-grade teacher who mended my wounds each time we had to do a …

The Light Shines in the Darkness: Hope

November 29, 2020 Week 1 of Advent Hope Download week 1 Here: The Light Shines in the Darkness : HopeDownload Sunday November 29, 2020 Advent reading: Our vision for 2020 and what it would hold and what we would accomplish may have been clear in the beginning but I think for many of us it …

GIVEAWAY: Forgiven Therefore Free

Hey there!! Tomorrow (October 26th, 2020) I am starting a giveaway over on Loved in Spite of Self- Katie Koplin Facebook page. It will end Tuesday November 3rd, 2020. Head over there to check it out for a chance to win! https://www.facebook.com/lovedinspiteofself A print copy of Forgiven Therefore Free: A Devotional Study Journal for YOURSELF …

Forgiven Therefore Free: September 13th

Print Copies are available to purchase now! If purchasing a copy is not in the budget right now the devotionals and questions will be posted right here on the blog starting September 13th. If you purchase the print copy or are using the free resources on the blog be sure to check out the Facebook …

It Has Arrived: Freely Given

It's official available on itunes and other podcasting apps! Click on the link below to hear the trailer and click the subscribe button so you don't miss the first full episode releasing September 10th. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freely-given/id1528892253

Coming this fall: Freely Given

I hate housework but love listening to podcasts. Laundry, cleaning, dishes all of those things are much more enjoyable when I have something engaging to listen to. The past couple years I've also been pondering the idea of hosting a podcast. But the equipment is expensive and I had no idea what I was doing …

Coming This Fall: Forgiven Therefore Free

This fall I am using our local ladies Bible Study as guinea pigs. We are reading the book of Galatians together and using a resource I have been putting together over the past months. Forgiven Therefore Free: A Devotional Study Journal A hearty portion of this study will show up on my blog this fall …

The Gifts we Give our Fathers

My father is one of the most difficult people to find a gift for. If you ask him what he would like he will give you some wonderful ideas like a new truck, or lake home. Or he will say he does not want anything at all. Unfortunately his suggestions are not in my budget …

Childbirth and Covid-19

Why is this so hard? It's a question I have been asking myself on the bad days during this quarantine. Not all of the days have been awful some of them have been beautiful but also there have been hard days. It's the same question I asked myself when we added a baby to our …

Community and Covid-19

Here we are living in a time when none of us know what to do. We hear different things on the news each night. Different ways to protect ourselves. On one of the few days I turned on the news it was a day when New York city was setting up make shift hospitals inside …