‘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 …
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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 …
Stacking Kindling
Being a parent is awesome, life-giving, affirming, and joyful….except when it isn’t. Sometimes, sharing wisdom with my kids feels like I’m pouring liquid gold down a big, sucking, abysmal, mud hole. …
“Teaching Generous”
Okay, let’s face it. Most of us are pretty screwed up when it comes to money. So screwed up, in fact, that many of you will stop reading this blog right…about…now…. Still reading? If so, let me just …
Using Power Wisely
I know! There are too many good things to read…you can’t read everything that crosses your radar! But when I read something that is really exceptional, I just have to share it with others. And, since …
Defending the “bubble”
One of the criticisms I hear lodged at Christian schools in general, and ours in particular, is that it’s “a bubble:” a safe, sterile environment, shielded from the harsh reality of sin and the world …
The Grace in Grace
One of the issues we struggle with the most as parents, and as a Christian school, is the interplay of grace, mercy, and consequences within the context of training up our children. We are …
Embracing the Other
Diversity Plaza, located in Queens County, New York, is aptly named: it is ground zero of the most ethnically-diverse urban area in the world. Of the 2.2 million citizens who call Queens home, 48 …
Confession is Good for the Soul
I was thinking the other day about the idea of confession of sins. Confession is not something we teach or talk about much in the evangelical church, and many of us probably don’t discuss it much with …
The Irony of the “Blessed”
My wife, who is considerably wiser than I, made an insightful observation as she was studying Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. Immediately preceding Jesus’ message, hordes of people with …