I am worn out. As I write this on a Wednesday night, I can barely keep my eyes open. Maybe it’s because I’m pushing 50, but I’m just now realizing I don’t bounce back like I used to (insert knowing …
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First Order Things
I have a very wise friend, a former chaplain at Covenant College and a writer. He wrote a book that has deeply and profoundly affected my faculty and me, impacting how we do much of what we do at …
Telling Kids They Stink
I’ve got a (late) New Year’s resolution to propose to all my fellow Generation Xer parents out there- let’s be better this year about telling our kids when they really stink at something. Maybe I’m …
Welcoming the Sojourner
“Sojourner” is one of those biblical words we don’t use much anymore in modern language, like “begotten,” or “abide.” But, “sojourner” has a very specific meaning that’s hard to capture with other …
The Answer to Why
As most of you know, one of our students took his life this week. As our whole community walks through its own grief, and grieves for the family, a common question arises, an old mantra in days like …
The New You
New Year’s resolutions get a bad rap, largely because they aren’t kept- a full gym in January, empty by February. I saw an article from the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Journal …
Everlasting Father
For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Is. …
Overwhelming Humility
One of the amazing things about Christmas is that it brings us on a collision course with the very extravagance of humility. Have you ever thought deeply about the circumstances of …
Peace on Earth
One of my favorite Christmas performances when I was a little guy was a really odd, but strangely rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy” featuring the paradoxical duet of Bing Crosby and David Bowie …
Who Is The King?
The Christmas story really isn’t for kids, when you think about it. The way we tell it, it usually is-sweet baby Jesus, adoring mom looking down, angels gazing longingly down from Heaven, cattle …
A Stand-Up Guy
If I had boys, and I had to pick a biblical character I’d most want them to grow to be like, it wouldn’t be Moses, or David, or Paul. It would be Joseph. We don’t know much about him, but what …
The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Before I came to Grace, I was no stranger to waiting. All my life, or at least from the time I was nine, I wanted to be a lawyer (I know, how weird for a nine-year-old, right? What’s wrong with a …