Family… Cleaner Is Not Always Better 10 Feb 201410 Feb 2014 Early this morning Mandi said "It is heartbreaking to look into Anna's room and see it so empty. It is clean which is not normal." Truer words have not been…
Family… The Double-Edged Sword 9 Feb 20149 Feb 2014 St. Augustine, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon. What do they have in common? They are all titans in Christian history? Yes. They all agreed on the sovereignty of God…
Family… Rest 8 Feb 20148 Feb 2014 First off, Mandi and I would like to thank everyone for their prayers, notes, emails, messages, and calls. It has meant a lot to us and we have been held…
Family… I Don’t Pull the Strings 7 Feb 20147 Aug 2014 My daughter Anna (not quite 10) was diagnosed with severe clinical depression about a year ago. I remember one day back then when she really snapped. She was talking about…
Family… Cutting 6 Feb 201415 Feb 2014 As you know I usually put up new posts every day. Yesterday I was playing "Mr. Mom" as we got a foot of fresh snow and school was cancelled. That…
Discipleship… Train Up Your Child 1 Feb 20141 Feb 2014 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6, ESV). As a father to three girls,…
A Tale of Three Women… Follow Up, Part 2: Looking at the Scoreboard 29 Jan 201429 Jan 2014 Jesus says in Luke 6:40 (NLTse) Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher. Paul echoes this in 2…
Christian Living… Right Theology Should Not Get In The Way of Love 8 Jan 20148 Jan 2014 Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine and fellow blogger, Michelle. During our conversation we started looking back at emails we had exchanged a couple months ago that…
Discipleship… Impartation 2 Jan 20142 Jan 2014 Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the LORD (Psalm 34:11, NLT). We need spiritual parents from whom we can learn both doctrine…
Christian Living… Living for God Means Living like Jesus 22 Dec 201322 Dec 2013 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in…