To preface, I am traditionally a Disney-Pixar hater. I don’t enjoy animation, the message is always cheesy, some of them have musical numbers, and they’re just…meh. But recently I stumbled across a quote from Chris Pratt, co-star of…
Happy New Year! Over the course of the next eight days we will be counting down the eight most-read articles from 2019. We hope you enjoy reviewing the posts that resonated with our readers; for a list of…
I still remember hearing the door slam for the first time: anger from MY child. I can still see the despair on his face, telling me how incapable he feels of living up to my standards: discouragement from…
When you hear, “Hey, just between us guys…,” you can expect that the topic of the conversation is one best understood by men and are best had around other males. However, in Joel Fitzpatrick’s book Between Us Guys:…
As someone early in the process of being a father, here are a few things fathers are called to biblically.
Over the past several weeks, we took a look on both sides of the blog at how we — as both youth ministers and parents — might love and disciple our boys and girls well and with prayerful, thoughtful…
Last week a mom talked about what it was like living in a home full of boys; this week we are talking to dads about raising daughters. We asked a few questions to get the conversation started: What…
Last month, during our church’s celebration of Mother’s Day, our congregation cried out to God in a call-and-response lament over broken motherhood. I debated whether or not we should incorporate a similar lament into our Order of Worship…
Over the years, I was startled that my son was not impressed or inspired by my holiness but was far more moved by my humility.
