Nativity dragon
There's a dragon in the Nativity Story. We don't put one in the cozy little Nativity sets that we display during Advent--because we don't want…
There's a dragon in the Nativity Story. We don't put one in the cozy little Nativity sets that we display during Advent--because we don't want…
One of my favorite Christmas songs is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." It's based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Christmas Bells." I love…
If you're a leader, you're always recruiting. Perhaps not in the formal sense where you're literally trying to recruit folks to fill positions, but you're…
One of my favorite words is Christmastime. Not only because of the warm feeling it evokes when I think about it--but because of the way…
"The cork at last came out of the bottle with a heart-cheering noise."C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, 17. My kids can hear the…
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Peter Kreeft, in his introduction to his book on Pascal, says, "There is a higher and a lower mode of teaching. Books are the lower;…
I've been tremendously blessed to grow up and through institutions that knew how to laugh. Though, I can't pretend that the humor was always appropriate--it…
We lived in an apartment in Dallas. At first we were outgoing--trying to introduce ourselves to our neighbors, trying to remember their names, greeting with…
"Last one into the house is a rotten egg!" Making ordinary tasks into competitions can be a powerful way to motivate behavior. But it also…