Love… Honor One Another, Part 2 17 Jun 201417 Jun 2014 A great example of seeing honoring one another in action is in 2 Samuel 9:1-13 (NIV) where David lives this out for us in his honoring of Jonathan's son Mephibosheth.…
Spiritual Formation Honor One Another, Part 1 16 Jun 201416 Jun 2014 Ok. Back from a great week at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale. Time to get back into my routine! Two weeks ago (has it been that long?) I posted…
Leadership… Working Out What God Is Working In 11 Jun 201411 Jun 2014 "I don't really have a clear idea about what God wants me to do with my life." Have you ever heard someone say that? I hear it fairly often. Several…
Spiritual Formation… Two Heads Are Better Than One 28 May 201428 May 2014 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12, NIV). Last week in my post I Am Not Enough,…
Spiritual Formation… How Do You Respond When You Get Smacked? 15 May 201415 May 2014 A single rebuke does more for a person of understanding than a hundred lashes on the back of a fool (Proverbs 17:10, NLT). This proverb doesn't pull any punches does…
Parenthood… The Patience Dojo 13 May 201413 May 2014 Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly (Proverbs 14:29, NIV). As a father, I have been learning that this is a very important truth…
Books… Who Are You Walking With? 12 May 201412 May 2014 Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm (Proverbs 13:20, NIV). Charlie "Tremendous" Jones put his own humorous twist on this verse when he…
Spiritual Formation… Truth Doesn’t Mean Much Without Trust 6 May 20146 May 2014 The past 24 hours has had a reoccurring theme: trust, or rather, the lack thereof. A daughter of mine is struggling with trust issues with her teachers at school, my…
Spiritual Formation… Lessons from Rats 5 May 20145 May 2014 Yesterday when I got home from work, my daughter Anna came to the door to meet me. She was in tears. Her pet rats, Dawn and Midnight, had both died.…
Christian Living… Anger == Danger 2 May 20142 May 2014 This week my posts have centered around the idea that the love that God’s grace produces is proved as much by what we don’t do as it is by what…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 