5Crawfords

In San Diego over the holidays - our boys would probably vote for every family picture being the sill one. What God’s been teaching me lately (If this doesn’t interest you, skip down below to the EMI update to hear about some of the cool things we’ve been up to at EMI lately.) In recent months, it seems that my devotion times and bible reading have centered on the same theme – the renewing of our minds as Christ followers. As a young kid, that usually meant trying not to think about the next toy or ‘thing’ I wanted. As a teenager, it was more about trying to keep my mind pure amidst a backdrop of indecency and promiscuity promoted by Hollywood (if you don’t believe me, go watch any PG movie from the 80’s –shocking!). But as an adult, it’s taken me years, I should say decades, to begin to understand that the battlefront in my mind subtly shifted to the area of self-reliance and the fight for my ‘right’ to myself. How does this play out? The general pattern is, something...