I long for deeper and closer friendships in my life, and I have been grateful for the men who have come into my world. But I often struggle with the deep envy of the same men I would want as a closer brother. I am both drawn to them and their gifts, yet, I am jealous...
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; Even when he is old he will not depart from it. While in Silicon Valley, I toured the Computer History Museum. If you or your child are fans of computers and technology, the Mountain View, California Museum is a...
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 Someone once asked me a question that still makes me laugh. A friend of mine was looking for parenting advice regarding his son’s behaviors....
“For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end, Christ died and lived again, […] This...
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1 Corinthians 13:1 There are a lot of stories surrounding the death of our daughter. One of them is that during the last week of her life, I...
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them – yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10 NIV Are we good enough? Sitting with my son as he ate breakfast...