Pause: Adding

Monday, February 2, 2015 (From the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time by Chris Maxwell)   I know. It isn’t easy. Adding another relationship, another duty, another task, another anything to an already-too-busy-life never is. We live in a...
Pause: Accepting

Pause: Accepting

Monday, January 26, 2015 (From the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time by Chris Maxwell)   “There’s not really much here. Not very much up here, at all.” The nice lady at the convenience store had good intentions. Hearing about my...

Baby: A Christmas Cry

From Chris Maxwell’s book Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas https://chrismaxwell.me/pause-christmas-gift-bundle Galatians 4:4–7 (The Message) But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a...

Listen: A Word to the World

From Chris Maxwell’s book Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas https://chrismaxwell.me/pause-christmas-gift-bundle Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who...

Remember: A Way Toward the Manger

From Chris Maxwell’s book Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas https://chrismaxwell.me/pause-christmas-gift-bundle Matthew 1:18–23 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but...

A Realization

From Chris Maxwell’s book Pause for Moms: Finding Rest in a Too Busy World https://chrismaxwell.me/pause-christmas-gift-bundle The Christmas lights come up. But they don’t stay up for long. The candles look nice as they create a new ambience in the room. But...