This afternoon I just watched the movie 10,000BC. I know, I know, it’s not the stuff of War and Peace and it’s not likely to win an Oscar.  But hey, it’s my kind of movie, the good guys win, bad guys lose and in the end, the guy gets the girl.  As the story goes, [...]

There’s an amazing story from the book of Numbers, which is the fourth of 66 books that comprise the Bible.  In it the children of Israel were murmuring and complaining and the Lord decided He’d had enough and was going to wipe out this ungrateful and stubborn people.  As a plague began to spread, Moses, [...]

We live in a culture that’s changing at such a rapid pace that emotionally, I’m not sure we are keeping up.  More and more, it’s a throw-away society.  For example, I found out my stereo receiver, which I just bought a few years ago, is, according to my friend, already “old school” technology.  Geeez. 
 
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I was speaking at a conference last week and ran into a good friend of mine, Jean Thomason.  Jean has a particular passion to see parents of preschoolers get the tools they need to effectively raise their little ones.  Jean has a delightful character she portrays on a series of CD’s and DVD’s called “Miss [...]

This past weekend I attended a memorial service for a long-time friend.  The guy was a legend, a pioneer and of the course of his life had amassed a slew of awards, accomplishments and accolades.  I was impressed and if I’m honest, felt like perhaps I wasn’t living up to my potential to be all [...]

I’m not sure I know the answer to this question but there must be something.  The other day I was speaking to a new acquaintance who spent years as a missionary.  As I typically do, I asked about his family, his kids.  He proceeded to tell me how each one was doing, how they were [...]

These days our kids spend more and more time connecting and communicating on the internet. Between IM (Instant Messaging), E-mails, Text Messaging, FaceBook and MySpace, our kids connect in more ways that we as parents just didn’t have access to when we were kids.  With us it was either face to face or on the [...]

First off, I should qualify this rant by reminding you that I am the father of three boys.  I don’t have girls and assume it’s because God either saw me genetically inferior and had pity on me or just likes me better.  Ask any parent of both boys and girls and they will almost unanimously [...]

I’m reading a wonderful book that was recently recommended to me called “The Shack” by William Young.  It’s a novel about a typical 50-ish man who had a pretty dysfunctional childhood yet managed to come through adulthood in reasonably good shape, married well, had kids.  Then an unthinkable tragedy strikes that sends him into a [...]

This morning as I was driving into the office I was on the phone talking to my wife about our son Jason.  I am out of town on business so she was filling me in on the activities at home that I missed.  Last night, coming home from a soccer game, Jason made a passing [...]