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 …
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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 …
The Candle of Preparation
‘A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall …
The Candle of Hope
My children are older now, but I was reflecting on Christmas past, when they were little. Two memories in particular haunt me in vivid detail. The first was when one of them wanted a …
Cultivating Gratefulness
There are few things that fly all over me when I see them in my kids like ungratefulness. As I’ve been thinking about it, there are a couple of reasons for this. First, like everything else, the …
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 …