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We’re probably not going to make it as a soccer family. We’ve tried, but our kids just don’t seem to click with it. There was one game where our son, who was 4 at the time, got possession of the ball and enthusiastically started dribbling it down the field … toward the wrong goal. From… Read more
I’ve loved soda as long as I can remember. On many occasions, when I was young, I’d see my dad’s glass of iced Pepsi sitting out and I’d sneak a quick sip when he wasn’t looking. I remember one summer day, as I walked through our house, I saw his glass on the countertop, and… Read more
“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves” (Matthew 10:16). Our son, Luke, works for a Bible camp in Iowa. It is a camp we attend each summer as a family, and one where I have taken students for camp or retreats many… Read more
Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up behind him. She touched the fringe of his robe, for she thought, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed” (Matthew 9:20-21). There is a local golf course that has a concrete statue of a toad near the… Read more
