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Follow Your Calling: Chasing Passionate Work
I currently work as an accountant and spend most of my week looking at spreadsheets and crunching numbers. Like most American men today, I am disengaged at work and would rather do something else with my time. As I sit in my cubicle and look back 25 years, I wonder...
Dear Jack: Making Decisions in the House
Dear Jack, My wife and I have some decisions to make, and we seem to be on separate pages about what to do. I know I can give in and let her win, but sometimes I get tired of not getting my way. I thought I should see what you had to say about it. Please help,...
Healthy Roots: Getting to the Source and Overcoming Sin
Being rooted in love (Eph 3:17), we can't thrive without deep roots (Mt 13:21), but what happens when we discover roots to things in our lives that we don't want to grow anymore? After living in our house for almost a year, my wife decided it was time to evict some of...
Lessons From The Father: Learned Behaviors
Proverbs 22:6 “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Lessons from the Father sound like some movie you’d see Kevin Costner in. Something around baseball, golf or old fighter pilots. But today we are...
Putting Faith In Action: Living It Out
Webster defines the word application as; 1. the act of putting to a special use or purpose. Every day I read the bible. Every day I pray. But not every day I act like a Christian. Why? Because we forget to become doers of the word. The bible is very clear that if you...
Flippin’ Eggs: What to do When Life Seems too Busy
With the farm full of four young children, 2 Golden Retrievers, 20 chickens, and 1 guinea pig, there is very little time in the week for yourself. Not complaining, just explaining; life is FULL. One morning a few weeks ago, we were having some coffee time on the front...
Dads, What You Say Matters
James 3:2: "For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body." I am a dad to three amazing yet different kids. Alexis is my oldest. She is a combo of my personality and my wife's....
Self-Evaluation: 10 Questions Christians Should Be Asking
Lamentations 3:40: "Let us examine and probe our ways, and let us return to the Lord." I don't know about you, but I am a pretty good liar when it comes to self-evaluation. It's kind of like looking in the mirror; I see the 18-year-old body I used to have and not the...
Been There, Done That, So Share
Recently I was listening to a group of Christian young men who had just completed their first year in college. I heard statements like “eye-opening,” “they don’t teach you this in High School,” “I wish I could do the first semester over again,” “I did not know what I...
Rest for the Weary
I’m tired, but who isn’t? I am, after all, a soccer dad. I own a man-van that is full of grass from various fields across North Carolina. My weekends are not my weekends. They were before my kids. Now I spend an inordinate amount of time on an uncomfortable lawn chair...
Your Last Words: Impacting Your Children for a Lifetime
No one wants to think about death, but the reality is that it is going to happen to all of us unless the Lord Jesus returns first. No one knows how they will die, whether suddenly or after some prolonged illness. "As the time approached for David to die, he ordered...
Check In When You Could Check Out: Caring for Your Family
I don’t know about you, but I try way too hard to be perfect in everything I do. It can be so stressful trying to cook the perfect meal, pray the perfect prayer, or write the perfect article. Then, I realize I am depending too much on the broken man God is renewing...