From the monthly archives: April 2011
Being an adoptive uncle is great. It means that someone in my family is willing to travel long distances, pay incredible amounts of money, and give of himself both emotionally and physically to bring an orphaned child into our family. Good thing I have a brother. My brother and his wife, Chad and Tiffany, just [...]
Last week I wrote a guest post at Bryan Allain’s blog about reasons why we usually do not go out to eat for lunch on Sunday. The article was intended to be humorous, but there is truth in it and more often than not we eat lunch at home. Recently we had some people over [...]
We keep our dog in a kennel in our bedroom at night. We learned the hard way that this is as much freedom as we can give her. She is a good dog, but when everybody is asleep, she likes to see how far her freedom will take her. Occasionally when we wake up, though, [...]
Choosing where to go to church can be tough. Choosing where to eat after church can be even tougher. When you have four kids, it is nearly impossible. Today I have the privilege of explaining 9 reasons we do not go out to eat on Sunday afternoons at Bryan Allain’s blog Daily Doses of Humor [...]
We had a going away party for someone this past Sunday at our house. Once everybody left and we started cleaning up the mess, we found some stuff that did not belong to us. As I looked at each item I imagined that there must be a story about why it was left behind. What [...]
Rules are good for us, for the most part. Sometimes we become so preoccupied with the rules that we lose everyday common sense. We lose sight of the big picture because we are so focused on the rule that we forget what it is intended to do. Here is an example from my hospital . This [...]
On Friday I wrote about how I tend to start sinking when I stop looking at Jesus and how he reaches out to help. The week before I talked about speed humps and how they can slow us down. This week I came across this video. Sometimes instead of sinking in the waves or running [...]
Life is tough. It is full of uncertainty, doubt, anxiety, and fears. I thought about this when I read my daughter’s post about being scared when she is hungry. Grace was expressing how scared and upset she gets. The time it takes for her to go from a little hungry to very hungry is very [...]
I have shared with you my fear about sharing the gospel. Maybe you have never struggled with this or perhaps you were so incredibly motivated by what I said that you are now living a reformed life and talk about Jesus with everybody you meet. So what exactly are you telling them? The Message I [...]
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