Posts by Carmen Fowler LaBerge
Spotlight Interview with Dave Buehring: Helping Your Spouse Live Their Calling
We just passed Valentine’s Day, which actually capped off National Marriage Week, a week intended to strengthen marriages. So, I thought this was a good time to talk with our friend Dave Buehring about marriage. Dave Buehring is the founder and president of Lionshare Leadership Group, an organization dedicated to equipping disciples to fulfill the…
Read MoreHow do we bring the Mind of Christ to Bear on the Epstein Files?
What is done is darkness will be brought to light You probably know that there has been a release of emails related to Jeffrey Epstein. The Wall Street Journal is basically writing an exposé a day featuring one particular tranche of emails exchanged between an individual in Jeffrey Epstein. The reporting has resulted in a…
Read MoreWhen your church leaves you
The ground has shifted, what now? “Wait, wait a second. I didn’t move. But my church did.” I have unfortunately heard some version of this conversation many times. This is how people who describe themselves as evangelical, conservative, orthodox, or traditional Christians have felt as mainline denominations marched toward the political left, and in some…
Read MoreGuarding God’s Word in a Polarized Age
When political activism text-jacks Scripture, what do we do? A listener recently sent in a question about the way Scripture is being used in today’s political activism. Mostly likely you’ve come across something similar. While watching media coverage of protests in Minneapolis, the listener noticed a sign displayed on a church pulpit where pastors from…
Read MoreIce storms
We’re navigating two big ICE storms this week. One being felt in the north and one in the south. The ICE storm currently centered in Minneapolis is really affecting people in every state in the union. The triple threat winter storm known as Fern is affecting people in 30 states, including my home state of…
Read MoreSpotlight Interview: Rob Dayton on how we live the abundant life
Jesus said he came to give us an abundant life (John 10:10). Isn’t that what we all want? But how do we actually live it out? All the New Year’s Resolutions and goals and systems are good— but I wonder if they can actually give us the kind of life we all desire. I thought…
Read MoreA Year-End Reflection: Receipts, Accounting, and God’s ROI
A different kind of year-end review—one that matters eternally It’s that time of the year— again. Back in the day we might have actually pulled out all the receipts. Today, more often than not, we allow some aggregator to tell us how much we spent on various categories of things and, we get to see…
Read MoreReclaiming the 12 Days of Christmas
Simple Ideas to Celebrate the Season All the Way to Epiphany Christmas is not just a day, it’s a season! Specifically, I’m talking about the Christmas season as the twelve days leading up to Epiphany (January 6). Think of it this way: Advent is the season of preparation, and Christmas is the season of celebration. In…
Read MoreConversation Tool: Christmas
Start the Conversation: Everywhere you look people have decorated for Christmas. But the characters of Christmas in America range from Santa to Snoopy to the Elf on the Shelf and Jack Skellington. What is Christmas, really? And who are the characters of the real Christmas story? How in the world do we Christ back into…
Read MoreChristmas Past, Present and Future
You can’t experience Christmas in the United States or Western world and not have some exposure to Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol. We all know the story then, right? Ebenezer Scrooge is a grouchy discontent who is visited by the ghost…
Read MoreCarmen’s Top 25 Books of 2025
Sharing my favorite books from the last year Each year, I have the privilege of receiving and reading a lot of books and interviewing many authors for The Reconnect. This is a list of my favorites from the past year, and where possible, we are including the corresponding podcast. Enjoy! (Each book image is linked…
Read MoreChrist made known in the baking and breaking of bread
Three meditations for the practice of homemade bread Today is “National Homemade Bread Day.” Funny to think there was a time when every day was homemade bread day— or else there would be no bread. But now, we can get almost any variety we desire at the grocery store. Still, there is something about the…
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