You’re bigger!
When I teach about growing in the Christian Life, I like to use these charts: I'm not sure who came up with these charts. The…
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Adoration
"The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration."J.I. Packer My kids laugh at my jokes. Nobody's told them, yet, that…
Grand highway
I wrote here about my surprising journey into Church History. That post also relays C.S. Lewis's thoughts on the importance of reading the past in…
The harder we lean
“God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength…
Three kinds
There are three kinds of people in the world. The first class is of those who live simply for their own sake and pleasure, regarding…
“Not how I was raised”
"That's not how I was raised," he said. I was having lunch with a college student almost twenty years my junior. We were discussing some…
Licensed friends
Friendships level up when we give each other permission to call each other out. I once heard this called "Giving your buddy a hunting license."…
Stages of fishing
When you're a little kid, fishing isn't fun unless you catch a fish. As you grow, at some point, something changes, and fishing is fun…
Greenhorn
I used to train operating room (OR) nurses who were fresh out of their internship. I had a special affinity for them because I could…
Simplify, Owl.
Every January our family participates in a Read-Aloud Challenge. Each person is supposed to read aloud for 10 minutes to someone else. If each person…