Mid-days With Lauree

Whether you’re working from home, or in an office, the environment could be killing your productivity. Here’s how to get your workspace to work for you!

God not only wants us to bring our mistakes we've made in the past to him, but also the ones we're currently making and he wants us to leave them at the foot of the cross.

If you're on the job hunt, you may have noticed that a lot of job listings have this certain lingo. But what do these buzz words really mean? We're here to help!

If you find yourself in the middle of trial that make's you feel like you'll never get to the other side, we're here to let you know that you will get through this.

Have you ever been a social situation where you thought, "if they only knew the truth, there's no way they'd want anything to do with me."? There was a season of my life that I knew this feeling all too well and that inner voice almost caused me to miss out on one of the most impactful experiences of my life! I'm guessing I'm not the only one who's ever felt this way. The feeling of knowing that because of the sin in my life, I wanted to run away from community instead of running towards it, running away from church instead of being apart of it, running away from God instead of running to him. My encouragement to you is this: 1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." God doesn't carry around the burdens of our sin and view us for that. We're seen as forgiven when we come to him. It's good news.

"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." Mark 16:15It felt easier when we were in-person to share the gospel but how do we flex with these changing times to utilize the digital space to share with people in our communities about the love of Jesus? The research group Barna found what worked best in this digital space.  If you are interested in finding some direction how to capitalize on forming and finding community check out the full article The Five Changing Contexts for Digital Evangelism

George Matheson started losing his sight as a teenager, but the lesson in love he gained gave him a perspective that was far greater!

We're not experts, but our friends over at Focus On The Family have 3 tips to help single moms survive!

We have something called the Prayer Center over at KCBI.org where you can leave a prayer request or you can pray for others in this KCBI community and that's exactly what this podcast is about!Today, Lauree prays a familiar prayer for one of our friends who been single for sometime and has a big date coming up this next week.

We hear it all the time, "Choose Joy". But can we actually choose joy? Pastor Josh Howerton says there's two ways to choose joy, but only one will be everlasting.

A Cat? Sure. A Dog? Maybe. A massive croissant that got mistaken for Iguana? Seriously?? You have got to hear this entire story!

If you've felt overwhelmed as of recent, take heart in the encouragement of this story God's bigger plan.

Some days, you can't escape the tired feeling. You may even feel like waving the white flag on the day completely, but what if instead of quitting, we chose rest?

Doug was at home the other night, dozing off to sleep on the couch...till this happened.

I know this is a little off the wall, but I truly believe I can hear God better when my room is clean.

Has there ever been a moment you've tried to teach God something?I know you probably think this question is silly and you'd be right, it is. God is the creator of the universe, what could I ever teach him? Well let me share with you my moment of immaturity where I tried to do just that.I was 17 years old and was with my youth group teaching English to kids from the Czech Republic and the first night of camp I noticed a girl started praying in her native language of Czech. I remember thinking it was beautiful, but I got worried thinking God wouldn't understand this girl because I couldn't understand her. So in my ignorance, I took a shot at translating her prayer so God could understand her when in reality I made God out to be too small. God understood her perfectly, not because God excelled in some foreign language class (lets be clear, he would), but because God was and will always be so much bigger than whatever expectations we could have of him. I'm so thankful for that.

You may have heard the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been halted for the moment due to some unforeseen side effects. Maybe you've received the one time vaccine and you're wondering what you should be looking out for. Here is the latest insight!

Big Blue, better known as the University of Kentucky, had a BIG ooops moment that left some student heartbroken and others downright confused!

What would you do, within moral and legal parameters, for 10 million dollars?

It's kinda vulnerable to admit that you struggle with anger. I did that today. Because it's been a struggle for me. And I believe that as a community when we share areas of our own weakness we can encourage and exhort others to pursue more Christlikeness together. So I admitted that I've struggled with anger this past year.A friend once told me that anger is a secondary response. When we are offended, betrayed, hurt, or sad that's the initial feeling and then it goes to anger. It's been going there pretty quick lately. I'm not proud of that. Here’s what angers gets us, it damages trust. It causes anxiety, it leads to loneliness and it damages self-esteem. You won't have to look far in the book of Proverbs to find so many examples of instruction what to do with our anger. But it was the encouragement of Ecclesiastes 7:9 today that gave me a challenge and rebuke: Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,for anger resides in the lap of fools.I don't want to be a fool. I certainly don't want to be an angry fool.