As many of you who were in church last Sunday know, it was International Day of Prayer for the persecuted church. This is the day, one Sunday a year, when the whole church of Christ around the world …
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What Does Love Require?
I had a friend ask me a question the other day regarding an issue involving a student situation, and how to handle it. The question has been haunting me ever since: “What does love require?” As …
Parenting Through the “Both/And”
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of embracing the “both/and” in our relationships with others, and our perspectives on faith. As I was thinking about it, so much of parenting is …
Unsweet Emotions
As a man who grew up in a house full of women, all sisters, and who now lives in a house full of women, all daughters, you can imagine that all my life I’ve lived around people who are all very in …
The Beauty of the “Both/And”
Last week, Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, was convicted of killing an innocent man in his own home when she mistakenly entered it, thinking it was hers. She received a sentence of five …
Digital Dilemma
I once heard Christian author Andy Crouch speak at a conference. He made a very interesting observation. He was discussing idols, in both their ancient and modern forms. Crouch noted that an idol …
On the Right Flight
I flew to New York City for a conference last week. As I left DFW, I was reflecting on navigational vectors, and what a curious thing they are. I’m not certain of the navigational vectors coming out …
Raising Antifragile Kids
Around 2013, colleges and universities across America began noticing that a very different kind of student was walking their campuses. Whereas for as long as there have been universities and colleges …
Gratefulness in Grief
I was reading a book lately that discussed a research project previously unknown to me called the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE). The study asked participants, who were mostly from middle …
Gratefulness through Unity
Do you almost always order the same thing on the menu every time you go to a given restaurant? Or, when you attend a weekly meeting, do you always sit in the same spot? What about people? Do you …
Gratefulness Through Giving
As you know, our school theme this year is “Growing in Gratefulness.” As I said last week, gratefulness is, for the most part, a spiritual discipline, like prayer and Bible study. Cultivating …
Growing in Gratefulness
The week before school began, at Meet the Cougars, a new high school student approached me. This young man had been away from Grace for a couple of years, and was now returning. He approached me, …