Dear Student, I need you to understand that you are an idol. Imagine a place where there are temples everywhere. Shrines dot the high places and idols welcome you into storefronts and homes. Priests conduct incantations, repeat mantras…
With three small children under the age of six we are in a particular parenting season. Everyone tells us it is “just a season,” but I gather it will be a long one. Multiple times during any particular…
Growing up, I have always been the youth ministry kid. If you were to do an SNL character of “that kid that loves youth group,” it would have been me. Dress up in your best Christmas outfit, you…
Facebook and I have a love-hate relationship. It loves to suck me into the vortex of infinite scroll and I hate how easily that happens. Strangely, the posts that suck me in more than any others are from a youth…
New Year, Unchanging God Anew beginning is on the horizon! A fresh start. The old year is gone and we have rung in the new. In the past, I have dabbled in making New Year’s resolutions. Here are…
I had the fortune to grow up in the golden age of quasi-grungy worship music. In the name of reaching my generation, people sang praise songs whose styles sounded more like a Creed deep track than something suitable…
I had done it again. In a couple of spots in my calendar I saw where I needed to have two children in two different places at the same time. (Double-booking seems to be my self-torture method of…
When my youngest was six, we redecorated her room. The fresh look called for much purging, so I decided to use the opportunity to teach a little bit about generosity. I told my daughter to fill a bag…
Promises are easy to make but hard to keep. I am sure that most of us know this all too well, especially from our time as teenagers. We’ve made pinky promises, secret handshakes with friends, gotten guarantees and…
