As I see it, there are two different ways to do Christian school: the easy way, and the hard way. The easy way involves setting extremely high behavioral standards before a world that is always …
The Best and the Worst
I love athletics. I love the volume of a packed gym at a basketball game. I love the sense of community, cheering for one’s team on a Friday night, feeling the crisp fall air, hearing the sound of …
New Year, New You?
I’ve not really thought much of New Year’s resolutions in the past. They’re often not worth the time to think them up. I come up with them, usually two or three days after the new year, as an …
Good Receivers
It is more blessed to give than to receive, so they say. But, it is much easier to give. We like being givers, especially at Christmastime. Christmas helps us think of ourselves as we like to …
An Unlikely Hero
Think about it. You’re born two thousand and some odd years ago in some backwater region of a great empire. Even in that backwater region, your town is small, tiny, insignificant, the “sticks” of the …
A Conversation
“Michael?” “Yes, Stephen?” “A moment, if I may, my Commander?” “Of course.” “Michael, the Most High has given me a mission: to appear before a group of men on earth to announce the moment we’ve …