Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: February 15, 2012
BY JONATHAN DEGLER Before I met Joe McAlpine, the new children’s pastor at Northview Church’s Carmel campus, I heard that he was exactly like the former children’s pastor, Joe McGinnis. Both men are bald, have young children and even share the same first name. After meeting McAlpine, though, I’m certain that he is a man [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: January 22, 2012
by Monica Taylor Are you ever afraid? Of course you are. I get afraid more often than I care to admit and I must say, it oftentimes seems to be about some the silliest things.. such as that spider on the wall (uckkk!), whether China will take over our economy, whether social security be there [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: January 2, 2012
by Sherron Franklin A New Year’s resolution is a positive commitment that an individual makes to one or more personal goals, projects or to the reforming of a habit. Have you ever stopped to think, “What is a New Year’s Resolution? Why do we make them? Should we make them? What is the history of [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: January 1, 2012
by Erin Monahan Stauffer Whenever I don’t know the answer to a question that one of my children asks, I tap my index finger on my lips, then look up quizzically and say, “I’ll have to Google that.” I admit that I probably say it more often than I should. In fact, it’s already become [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: December 31, 2011
by Glenn Toren Learn how to play the guitar? Check, check. Get in the best shape of my life? Yup. Learn Spanish? …um…Si! Play something other than “Be Still My Soul” on the piano? Sure. Write more family letters? Easily done. My list could go on and on but you get the idea. I can [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: December 28, 2011
by Diana Gorin “Girls, quit studying and come downstairs!” This is a phrase I hardly ever hear in my household. She doesn’t need to say it again. It’s 9:31; we were late. My sister and I sprint down the stairs in a semi-playfully competitive nature. But we both know deep down that only one of [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: December 27, 2011
by Monica Taylor I really do love Christmas! As I grow older, I appreciate so much more so many of the things that I have taken for granted all these years. I look at my dear husband and realize that he has played a huge part over the past 20+ years in making some wonderful [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: December 26, 2011
by Rebekah Smith Christmas traditions, or any tradition for that matter, were not really a part of my childhood. I remember thinking at a young age that when I had kids one day, I would implement all the Christmas traditions of which I longed to be a part as a child. My family moved around [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: December 23, 2011
by La Tonya Jordan A Christmas tradition I can recall from when I was a child is the Christmas music played in my house. My mother would insist that we turn off the rhythm and blues music, and sounds of “Silent Night,” “I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” and the “Christmas Song” would fill the [...]
Posted by: thenorthviewblog on: December 22, 2011
by Elissa Lindsey Family Christmas traditions can be passed down through generations or may be “borrowed” from other people or cultures and then become a family tradition. Our family found one of the latter when our three children were young. When we first moved to Speedway in the early 1980s, one of our immediate family’s [...]
