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 »
[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 »
[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 »
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 »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring rejuvenates flowering dogwood, cherry, pear and the vibrant colors of trees in blossom. Summer reveals the beauty of myriad shapes of leaves gifting you with delightful shade in the heat of the sun. Deciduous trees in the fall erupt into a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors. Who cannot marvel »
Taking moments to notice the positive During the Civil War, at the Battle of Fredericksburg, in what was one of the most one sided victories for the Confederacy, the Union Army marched across open ground to face an entrenched Confederate Army. The Union’s losses were massive and what they had »
To explain what I feel a good father should be, I must first point out some negative things and hope that they will not only alarm you who are reading this text but also give you a better idea of what we are up against. In other words, to tell »
We all feel sad, down, blue or discouraged at times. That's pretty normal. Sadness, disappointment, and pessimism are natural reactions to the hassles of life. I regularly feel a bit blue during football season as I watch my beloved Oakland Raiders lose each week. The reality is that, in the »
Nathan was changing. He was becoming increasingly irritable, bored, sad, and just plain angry. When his mother would ask what was wrong, he'd snap, "I'm just having a bad day." For a few months Nathan's mother assumed that the pressures of school and just being a young teen were the cause of »
Receiving The Harvest Though it is vital to properly mold children from birth, it is important to know that with the Lord there comes mercy that can be new every morning. As God promised in Joel 2:25a: “I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten. Because »
What difference does it make who I choose as a friend? Some time ago, I realized that the people I spend my time with directly impact my capacity for success. It is a simple principle in life: you become like the people you spend your time with. There’s no getting »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As far as exciting, dangerous adventure stories go you can hardly improve on the shipwreck account of the Apostle Paul on the way to Rome (told in Acts 27) when 276 people on board an ancient sea galley with sails fought for their lives in the onslaught of a »
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