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  • 3 Things You Don’t Want For Your Kids But Should As School Starts Back

    3 Things You Don’t Want For Your Kids But Should As School Starts Back

    One thing I failed to reckon with prior to becoming a parent is the strength of my desire to protect my children from pain. In many ways this is a good desire, but like all desires, it needs to be tempered. By which I don’t mean that we beat or starve our children, but that…

  • When Good Men Give Up

    When Good Men Give Up

    It seems that lately I talk to more men who are overwhelmed by life. You could call it a mid-life crisis, a crisis of faith, or even burnout, but the stories are somewhat similar. It’s possible that the prevalence of this is “local” to me, or it could be a figment of my imagination, or…

  • True Food

    True Food

    Communion Meditation, August 3rd 2025 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the…

  • On Servant Leadership

    On Servant Leadership

    A while back I had been on the kids about picking up after themselves, so when one of my daughters left her snack trash and cup lying on the table, I called her back in to clean up and remonstrated, “You are responsible for cleaning up after yourself; I am not your servant”. Upon which…

  • That We May Be One

    That We May Be One

    Communion Meditation July 6, 2025 Text: John 17:1-11 As Christ is preparing to go to the cross, His care and His attention is not for Himself, but for those He is going to leave behind in the world. He will not leave them alone, because He is going to send another Comforter to be with…