Paris' Slide Show
As a part of a PAYH graduation ceremony we always show a slide show of images from the young man's time with us. It is remarkable to look back and remember his time with us and to see the changes that take place in him. From the physical changes as »
Tears Like Water: Shooting In Newtown
My favorite daily devotional, “A Slice of Infinity, has told the story of a young girl who was the victim of a horrible event that took her life. In June of 2005, People Magazine entitled the article, "Justice for Samantha." The story is achingly heartbreaking as it tells how the »
Biblical Truths for Times of Tragedy
What should we teach our children in order to prepare them for tragedy? Here are ten Biblical Truths that will be helpful as you speak to your children during times of tragedy. In a fallen world, in which we live, tragedies will happen. They may strike near us in our »
The Gritty Work of Your Salvation in a Cattle Stall
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] One Christmas/Advent commentary I received last week asked what Jesus as a baby did in the manger; and answered their own question, “Nothing. What He would do was yet to come, they wrote, when He went to the cross to die for us. This ignores a vital part of »
Unbleached Pumpkins
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] My granddaughter recently finished a scientific school project appropriate to the season; and she learned a valuable spiritual truth in the process. Using five pumpkins, which she hollowed and carved with typical Halloween faces, she left one pumpkin untouched by any preservative, while the other four were treated with »
Does Thanksgiving Bring Tears To Your Eyes?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When thanksgiving is felt in every bone and sinew of your body, it causes your eyes to tear up. This is the passion of being overwhelmed with true thanks-giving, when our hearts “well up and the natural overflow are freely flowing tears. We had the privilege of visiting Prince »
Promises To Pray Over Your Child
I heard God's beautiful whisper tonight as I was putting my kids in the bed. This is what He said to me, "Why do you wait until your kids fall asleep before you pray over them? I want you to pray over them while they are awake. Pray over them »
Signs of the Times
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “America is great because she is good; if she ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Alexis de Tocqueville’s two centuries old prophecy has been fulfilled. America is no longer great, because she by and large has ceased to be good. Truth has stumbled in the »
Peer Association
How important are your children's friends? How much influence do you think they have in their lives? As our children grow into teenagers and young adults, the friends that they select to spend their time, their life, with are the ones that will inevitably shape who your child becomes in »
Heart Reader
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Do you know the Heart Reader? Having just walked in the door of our home from three weeks away we received a phone call to meet an ambulance at the hospital carrying my 95 year old father. He was experiencing severe chest pain and tightness, symptomatic of a heart »
Bold for Truth
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] An evil coward with a gun climbed on a school bus in Pakistan and shot an unarmed 14 year old school girl in the head to silence her courage. From the time she was 11 this Catholic teenager had boldly spoken out for truth, knowing she did so with »
Spoiled Rotten: Why do kids rule the roost?
Are our children spoiled rotten? This past summer, a thought provoking article written by Elizabeth Kolbert came out in The New Yorker (here's a link to the article) stating that American children are spoiled rotten and asking why our kids rule the roost. That is a great question in light of the »
