Blog of Jay Ferguson, PhD, Head of School at Grace Community School in Tyler, Texas
If you grew up in one of the more traditional American Christian denominations, chances are good that you didn’t talk much in church about the Holy Spirit. For many of us in our experiences growing …
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Some of y’all may be old enough to remember these days, but I distinctly remember driving back home to Dallas from visiting my grandparents in Fort Worth at night, lying down on the hat rack of the …
Note: Throughout this year, Grace Community Church, our school’s parent ministry, is taking one passage of Scripture per week for special focus and study. In keeping with that emphasis, from time to …
There are few things that fly all over me when I see them in my kids like ungratefulness. As I’ve been thinking about it, there are a couple of reasons for this. First, like everything else, the …
Being a parent is awesome, life-giving, affirming, and joyful….except when it isn’t. Sometimes, sharing wisdom with my kids feels like I’m pouring liquid gold down a big, sucking, abysmal, mud hole. …
One of the issues we struggle with the most as parents, and as a Christian school, is the interplay of grace, mercy, and consequences within the context of training up our children. We are …