Happy New Year! We are in 2020—can you believe it? Oh how the years fly by! But we don’t want to let this one go too quickly, at least not without using the year itself as a way of renewing focus for both you and ourselves. And so throughout 2020, we’ll be focusing on a… Read More 20/20 in 2020: Setting Our Vision on Christ The post 20/20 in 2020: Setting Our Vision on Christ appeared first on Beneath the Tangles.
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