Kevin Garrett

New Life

It is amazing how much anticipation, excitement, and joy a new birth brings.

I am grateful to have experienced a good deal of community in our town in a recent week. My calendar was full of opportunity to be with other people through a variety of occasions and events. I worked on a project with an old friend in another town, visiting with others while we are there,Continue reading “Created for Community”

Gratitude

“..be grateful for how God has shaped you, allowing people and circumstances to mold you into becoming more like Him.”

Let’s Hear It for the Students!

Perhaps we really do not ask God for true revival because we want Him to bless us in the ways we request rather than ask Him to help us adjust to Him.

…with a Little Help from My Friends

“We all need mentors, leaders, and others to help us grow . . .None of us are perfect.”

Perfection

A man became envious of his friends because they had larger and more luxurious homes. So, he listed his house with a real estate firm, planning to sell it and to purchase a more impressive home. Shortly afterward, as he was reading the classified section of the newspaper, he saw an ad for a houseContinue reading “Perfection”

Slow Down this Year?

My bride and I enjoyed a few days of rest before and after New Year’s Day. I sincerely enjoyed it. Being able to recharge was a refreshing luxury in our lives. I thought, “This is nice! We should be more intentional to take time for rest and relaxation.” This week I am back in myContinue reading “Slow Down this Year?”

What Child is This?

People today still ask, “Who is Jesus?”

Husbands, Love Your Wives

In my Sunday school class, I’ve been teaching the differences between the theological constructs of complementarianism and egalitarianism. (Yeah, come to my class…I may bore you to death.) To summarize it simplistically, the first teaches men and women are of equal value but have differing functions which complement one another, while the other teaches menContinue reading “Husbands, Love Your Wives”

Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus

Hope can be defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. We all need hope. At the end of the Old Testament, in the book of Malachi, God’s people looked, with hope, toward the coming Messiah. There was no word from God for 400 years. “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”Continue reading “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus”