My family was blessed to live very near Lake Tahoe for a couple of years during the early 2000’s. If you’ve ever traveled to that region, you know it is one of the most breath-taking places in the United States. The crystal blue lake is crowned on all sides with some of the finest ski slopes in North America. This feels like the right time to tell you that I am not an accomplished snow skier. In f...  Read More

Hard to believe that yet another year is upon us. Last year brought about many changes and challenges. I know that many had similar experiences. Isn’t that just how life goes? Doors open and doors close. Seasons come and seasons go. Challenges come and change is inevitable. This is part of life.The writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us of the inevitability of change in chapter 3 verse 1, “For everythi...  Read More

I love Christmas time. Snow, fires, hot chocolate, baked goods, and family are only a small number of the reasons why I get extremely excited for the Christmas season. However, I like many have to do my best to focus on the true meaning of Christmas, Christ!We live in a world that is full of busyness and distractions. A person just need only look down at the smartphone in their hand to know that d...  Read More

Prayer is something that we have been thinking a lot about at Heartland Church overthe last several months. It has been a great blessing to work through “A Praying Life” byPaul Miller and to focus for 5 weeks on the subject of relational prayer in our weekendgathering. I have become more convinced than ever of the overwhelming necessity ofprayer in all things, especially in the building up of God’...  Read More

The changing of summer to fall is my favorite time of year. I love fall. It is the beginning of deer season, pumpkins, harvest, apples, bonfires, chili, football, shorter days, and the list goes on. These things bring up so many memories for me. For families each year this time also brings about the return to school and its related changes.  For us at Heartland this fall brought about the start of...  Read More

What age do you think about when you hear the word, "old"?  Well, if you are 16, it might be 30; if you are 30, it might be 60; and if you are 60, it might be 90.  But if you are 90, you know you are old!  In the Bible, we learn about Methuselah, Noah's Grandpa, who lived to be 969 years old.  Living to that age is almost incomprehensible.  But, being as old as I am is also almost incomprehensible...  Read More