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Covenant Not Contract
At a time when we can visit a drive-thru chapel in Vegas and get married to a stranger by someone dressed as Elvis, no wonder we get covenant and contract confused. From was God designed to be everlasting (that no man shall tear apart) to being disposable by the end...
Integrity
"Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out. "Proverbs 10:9 As soon as it happened, I knew that I'd made a potentially life-threatening mistake. I panicked. My mind raced through all the complications that my patient...
Uncommen Challenge: Bike Ride
If you are a UNCOMMEN member, please ensure you're signed in to view this content. If you aren't a member, please click here to get started. You probably saw "Bike Ride" and immediately saw yourself on a Harley or a vintage India motorcycle. Easy big...
Deeper Conversation With Your Wife
Ephesians 4:2-3: "With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Do you remember any books you read from the 5th grade? Maybe it was a Choose Your Own Adventure tale,...
Conversation Starters
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Here's how a typical conversation with my kids on the way home from school goes, "so how was your day?" Response from my third grader, "Good." Response from...
How To Be A Dad
Dads, it’s a work in progress. Each stage of life will bring different challenges, each child will be different, and you’ll enter and exit seasons of life that will make you understand worry lines and hair loss. Where Dads get in trouble is when we stop somewhere...
How can we display God in a world on fire?
At Uncommen, we never respond to political situations as they are often fueled by both sides of the same bird. But we are impacted by events just as you are; we wanted to offer some perspective and encouragement. When something like a change in the policy of Roe v...
Perspective
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10: 3-4 NIV Writing these presents me with an...
Uncommen Challenge: Camping
If you are a UNCOMMEN member, please ensure you're signed in to view this content. If you aren't a member, please click here to get started. You had to know it some coming. The Uncommen Challenge: Camping Trip. We would suggest maybe doing a couple of...
Loving My Wife
“Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 9:9 Tough Question: What does loving...
Advice For A New Dad
"You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. This is what the Lord Almighty says, "Give careful...
Anger Management
If you haven’t read the story of Jonah in a while, you may want to go back and read about Jonah’s hall of fame hissy. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and call them out on their evil. Jonah rose and fled to Tarshish. Jonah didn’t give God a “say what?” Or “I don’t want...