Conversations in the Barn

What does the Bible say about Christian relationships, marriage, parenting, and how we conduct ourselves at work? In Colossians 3: 18– 4: 1, Paul explains how following Jesus should shape our everyday relationships...

For years, I noticed my grandmother treated me differently than my siblings, and I never knew what to do with that difference. When I finally found the courage to ask her about it, the conversation didn't go the way I...

What does it mean to truly see? In Mark 10, we meet Bartimaeus, a blind beggar sitting beside the road outside Jericho. His story is about more than physical healing. It is a picture of what faith can look like when we...

For months, I dreaded the day our tech booth would have to be completely unplugged and put back together. What I found on the other side wasn't the disaster I'd imagined, it was a lesson in gratitude I didn't expect...

What does it really mean to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly ? In Colossians 3, Paul gives us a picture of what it looks like for our faith to become more than a weekend event. The question isn't simply whether...

This week on Conversations in the Barn, I'm telling the story of a coyote, a missed shot, and a rifle that turned out to be an inch off, without either of us knowing it. Pastor Bryan preached this week on being one...

What if the greatest threat to your spiritual journey isn't a dramatic fall, but a single degree of drift? A pilot can be just one degree off course and still look like everything is going according to plan. But over...

Not every decision comes with a clear right or wrong answer. In this episode, I'm sharing the story of the choice that moved our family to Wyoming, and what it taught me about letting the peace of Christ rule instead of...

What does it really mean to live at peace? Peace is often something we think of as a feeling, a quiet moment, or simply the absence of conflict. But in Colossians 3: 15, Paul invites us into something much deeper: “Let...

Sunday morning, Rachel was behind the camera in the tech booth when Pastor Isaac invited a young man named Cody up to share his testimony. She made a deliberate choice to keep the shot wide, to keep Isaac in the frame...

What does it actually look like to live as someone who has been made new? In Colossians 3, Paul gives us a picture of the transformed Christian life by telling us to “put on” a new way of living. Like adding layers as...

My face gets there before my mouth does. It gives away what I'm thinking before I've decided whether it's worth saying. In this episode, I sit with Colossians 3:8-10 and an ordinary morning with my daughter Lydia to ask...

What does it really mean to live as someone who has been raised with Christ? In this episode, we continue through Colossians 3 and explore Paul's powerful picture of the Christian life as death and resurrection. Paul...

Some things stay fixed even when everything else moves. In this episode of Conversations in the Barn, Rachel talks about a friendship that's lasted decades and 1,400 miles, a friend walking through something that will...

What does it actually mean to be raised with Christ? Colossians 3 calls us to set our hearts and minds on things above, but what does that look like when real life keeps demanding our attention? Business frustrations...