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It has been twelve weeks since we lost Penny and her death still weighs on our hearts daily. In a moment of tiredness I miss the daughter I never got to properly know. When my other three children are playing I grieve that they will not experience her joining them in their roller coaster ride … Continue reading When God Says “It is Good”
I have been using the phrase "post-Christian" in sermons for a while now to try to help my congregants navigate our society. But I have decided to retire it. I had been using the term because it does accurately capture the loss of a "center" in American culture. This center consisted of concepts such as … Continue reading I’m Retiring “Post-Christian” from My Vocabulary
It's Spring in the Ozarks and that means thunderstorms and tornado warnings. When the storms come my children will comfort themselves beneath their warm blankets and clutch their fuzzy stuffies. They do this because they are children and they don't know any better. They don't know that the only thing their blankets can provide is … Continue reading The Comfort of Concrete
Katie's thoughts on comfort following the loss of our daughter.
When we found out the week after Christmas that Penny had a serious heart defect, we were faced with the possibility that she would die. It was hard as a father to take that. We want our children to live. But we determined to the best of our ability to be good parents to Penny … Continue reading The Words I Said At Penny’s Funeral
Today we lost Penny.
As we hit week 32 of a pregnancy that by all accounts could have ended weeks ago, we are praising the Lord for His goodness and His grace. I am mostly thankful for you and your prayers, which I believe have made the biggest difference. We are thankful for the doctors, although by their own … Continue reading The Margins
I may have a problem. Katie has informed me that I have started a remodeling project every trimester of Penny's pregnancy. This next one we started is a big dog as we decided to tackle both bathrooms, which means our family of five is limited to using the new bathroom in the laundry room until … Continue reading Demo Day and the Dump Trailer
How does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy stack up against Biblical Counseling? Here are some introductory thoughts.
The egalitarian culture in which we live provides endless opportunities to conflict with a clear vision of God creating man and woman as distinct. Within conservative evangelical circles these distinctions have been addressed most robustly - outside of the teaching of individual churches - by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. The Billy Graham … Continue reading Ravi could have used some guardrails: Re-Examining the “Billy Graham Rule”
Nathan Writes 