I used to love Garth Brooks. I guess I still do. One of my favorites of his was “Unanswered Prayers.” It’s the bittersweet story of a guy who prayed and prayed in his youth that the Lord would allow …
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The God Who Listens
Isn’t it funny how one word, one phrase read differently can change the entire meaning of a story? I was reading an article by Gordon Grose in this month’s Christianity Today about how a …
Be Still
For the past several weeks, I’ve been writing about praying powerful prayers, which happens to be this year’s theme for our school. This past summer, the Lord taught me some valuable things about …
Fervent Prayers
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about praying powerful prayers, and how so much of the effectiveness of our prayers is relational, tied up in our views of God and how He sees us, as …
Unforgiven
What is the high-hanging fruit on your sanctification tree? You know, that thing, that issue that always seems to dog you? The one that you feel like you’ll be carrying with you all your life? For …
Beloved One
A friend of mine said he believes we have all under-experienced God’s love in our lives. If so, that alone may be a big impediment to intimacy with Him, and may inhibit us from praying powerful …
Praying Powerful Prayers
I love the beginning of school, with all its excitement and enthusiasm. As I was at junior high locker day the other day, a mom shared with me about her recently-graduated daughter, now living in a …
Saying Goodbye
On Saturday, May 19th, Grace graduated the Class of 2018 in its commencement exercises. The following is my final charge to our graduates, and my final blog for the school year: It’s my privilege to …
Making the Improbable Possible
I’m probably the most improbable PhD recipient ever. This graduation season, I earned my PhD from Dallas Baptist University. My whole family attended to celebrate the end of this five-year …
Remembrance and Celebration
One of the really great things about our faith is that it’s not just a “get out of hell” card, not just about gaining eternal life. Our faith is also just a better way to live. I write often of the …
An Inevitable Paradox
The end of the school year always puts me in a reflective mood. Much like December, the end of the school year is a time to think back on what went right and wrong. It’s a time to appreciate what went …
The Power of No
I often think the most powerful, yet most underused, word in today’s modern parental vocabulary is “no.” If you look at a great deal of what ails children and parents about living in modern culture, …