In our culture, humility is something we admire, but not something to which we aspire (or, at least, we don’t act as if we do). We tweet out every mildly humorous or interesting thought we have, …
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Brothers in Christ
My sister used to say that, when we were little, she never could understand why kids made such a big deal when they would fall or land wrong and get the wind knocked out of them. She said that she …
Teaching Jesus for Everyone
If you read the newspaper or watch the local news, or have just been paying attention around town, you’ve seen that there’s a Christian school called Promise Academy opening in North Tyler. The school …
The Sophomore Slump
When you work here, and work in education, for 13 years, you see a few things. When you have your own kids go all the way through, you see a few more. There are some phenomena so pervasive in kids as …
Heart and Purpose
I ordinarily blog on things that are broader in scope than my school context; however, an issue arose recently that God has used to teach me a lot about leadership, unity, and His heart for His …
Introducing Kids to the Holy Spirit
If you grew up in one of the more traditional American Christian denominations, chances are good that you didn’t talk much in church about the Holy Spirit. For many of us in our experiences growing …
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In Praise of Healthy Praise
Some of y’all may be old enough to remember these days, but I distinctly remember driving back home to Dallas from visiting my grandparents in Fort Worth at night, lying down on the hat rack of the …
Creator and Created
Note: Throughout this year, Grace Community Church, our school’s parent ministry, is taking one passage of Scripture per week for special focus and study. In keeping with that emphasis, from time to …
Going Ugandan
I have spent the last week in Uganda. I am here now. I think this is somewhere around my tenth trip to Uganda, working for Parental Care Ministries. I don't pretend that I've made any profound or …
The Christ Candle
When most of us think of Advent, or of Christmas, pretty soon our minds start thinking about the crèche, the advent scene. Mother and father, dressed in pristine, royal robes, beaming proudly down …
The Candle of Love
I love that line in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln where the title character, in a rare assertion of his authority to acquire badly-needed votes to end slavery, loudly declares, “I am the President of …
The Candle of Joy
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 …