One of my favorite books we read in high school at Grace is Tale of Two Cities. Some people don’t like Dickens, but his story of sacrificial love and redemption set in revolutionary France has always …
Suffering and Sacrifice
This past Tuesday, we held our Veterans’ Day commemoration at the elementary (we have it a week early to help ensure a lack of conflicts for our veterans). I am acutely aware that I say this about a …
“Teaching Generous”
Okay, let’s face it. Most of us are pretty screwed up when it comes to money. So screwed up, in fact, that many of you will stop reading this blog right…about…now…. Still reading? If so, let me just …
Defending the “bubble”
One of the criticisms I hear lodged at Christian schools in general, and ours in particular, is that it’s “a bubble:” a safe, sterile environment, shielded from the harsh reality of sin and the world …
Confession is Good for the Soul
I was thinking the other day about the idea of confession of sins. Confession is not something we teach or talk about much in the evangelical church, and many of us probably don’t discuss it much with …
The Irony of the “Blessed”
My wife, who is considerably wiser than I, made an insightful observation as she was studying Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. Immediately preceding Jesus’ message, hordes of people with …