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“Jesus is Coming” So proclaimed the neon green poster board that someone had placed in the median of busy Capital Boulevard right by my house.  With the crude hand-lettering (or maybe in spite of it), it was hard to ignore it. As I drove by, I decided to suppress my...

“There are so many opportunities today, Lord." It was early on a Thursday morning, and I was praying about my day.  As I pondered what was in my schedule, I prayed over it.  Leading a corporate Bible study that morning.  Lunch with a young woman who had started...

It’s a fun time to live in North Carolina.  Our NFL team is going to the Super Bowl!  It’s an event that has united everyone – Tarheel, Wolfpack, and Blue Devil – in rejoicing and supporting the Carolina Panthers. Probably the biggest point of conversation about the...

I messed up the other day. I had called AAA about finally getting my husband’s car towed back home from the dealership where it sat about an hour away from our house.  (See here for the December post when the car broke down.)  We pay for 100 miles of free towing and...

Almost everyone loves the start of a new year.  A clean slate, a fresh start, a chance to change (or resolutions to anyway!), and a sense of expectancy and hope.   For Christians, that last one should be even more true - actually should be true every day - because we...

“It’s a broken Christmas.” That’s what went through my head last week as I stood in front of my kitchen sink mulling over the events of the last 7 days.  First the heat had stopped working, and we got a whole new HVAC unit on the advice of the repairman.  Four days...

Sometimes I think no one can do Christmas traditions like the Pollock family.  We have so many that at times it can be hard to find the time to get them all in!  But we love every bit of it! Some of our traditions started when I was a child.  My dad always read us...

Over the last couple of weeks as I prepared to lead the last chapters of the Book of Hebrews, I realized that it was a perfect time to study them because both chapters mention thanksgiving. Hebrews 13:15 says, “Through Him, then, let us continually offer up a...

Driving along Hwy 49 to Charlotte one day, I was drawn in to a catchy song on the radio that I’d never heard before.  So I focused in to listen to the words. I never met you, but I know you're out there If I cross the oceans, would you be there? A stranger's eyes that...

In my last post, I shared my thoughts and personal experience with how hard it can be to say “no”.  I also shared a couple of Biblical principles from Henry Cloud that have helped me in making those hard decisions when I have either external or internal pressure to...