Going Deeper… Why Won’t God Just Take This Away? 6 Jan 2016 For the director of music. A psalm of David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I…
Grace… Loving Our Enemies 19 Dec 2015 David modeled what it means to love your enemy by sparing Saul's life in 1 Samuel 24. In yesterday's post we dug into the reality that the New Testament teaches…
Family… Learning from Dads 21 Jun 201521 Jun 2015 FWell, hello again….it has been a while. Family, work, and a week away at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale Divinity School have kept me from posting for a while.…
Discipleship… Paul the Mother 11 May 201511 May 2015 Yesterday I started looking at 1 Thessalonians 2:7b-10 where Paul uses the picture of motherhood to describe how he related to them when he first came there. Just as a…
Family The Wide Spectrum Of Mothering 10 May 201511 May 2015 I adapted Amy's "Wide Spectrum of Mothering" for my Mother's Day prayer this morning in church. This post is excellent and I highly recommend it to you today. Grace, Dan
Discipleship… Moms, Motherhood, and Discipleship 10 May 201510 May 2015 Mothers… You can't come into this world without one (even Jesus couldn't come into this world without a mother). They are necessary. Mothers, whether they know it or not, are…
Discipleship… You Can’t Really Disciple People without Loving Them 12 Feb 201512 Feb 2015 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the…
Family Anniversary (But Not the Kind You Like) 6 Feb 20156 Feb 2015 One year ago today my daughter Anna was admitted to the hospital. Not because of a physical illness or need for surgery, but because of depression, suicidal ideation, and cutting.…
Family Digging Out 5 Feb 20155 Feb 2015 Hello my friends! Between sick kids, record-breaking snow storms, more than a week of snow days, and needing to spend extra time on some ministry related paperwork I have needed…
Love… Lessons from 24 28 Dec 201429 Dec 2014 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25, NIV). No, I'm not talking about Jack Bauer. I'm talking about my…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 