On Fathers Day 2014 I gave each of the dads in my church a copy of David Drury’s book Being Dad. If you have not yet received you copy, please see me. I will not give this book to your wife or children to pass along to you, as this is a gift from me to … Continue reading Being Dad Part 3: The Peer Years
On Fathers Day 2014 I gave each of the dads in my church a copy of David Drury’s book Being Dad. If you have not yet received you copy, please see me. I will not give this book to your wife or children to pass along to you, as this is a gift from me to … Continue reading Being Dad Part 2: The Growth Years
On Fathers Day 2014 I gave each of the dads in my church a copy of David Drury’s book Being Dad. If you have not yet received you copy, please see me. I will not give this book to your wife or children to pass along to you, as this is a gift from me … Continue reading Being Dad Part 1: The Early Years
A couple of years ago David Drury invited me to stay at his home while I took a seminary intensive course. I sat in his family’s living room one evening reading a book, and observed his family interact as I peered over the book pages and kept my ears open. At the time, my daughter … Continue reading Book Review: Being Dad
Anyone else out there have daughters? My daughter, Sophia, is a month away from being 3-years-old. Here was our conversation yesterday, and I should let you know we have three pregnant ladies in our church right now. Sophia: I have a baby in my tummy. Dad: You don’t have a baby in your tummy. Sophia: … Continue reading A Baby in My Tummy
Everyone has pivotal moments in life that transform them, sometimes for good and sometimes for bad. Some of these moments are God’s means of grace, where we may either be empowered by and towards God (2 Kings 2:9-15), or taken to a new level of hardness (Exodus 8:32; 9:12). Although not all are sacraments, I recall: accepting … Continue reading The Sacraments as Means of Grace part 4: Ordination
Jason L. has another great post over at Ascending Mount Carmel, this time writing on his transition from a private to communal spirituality. . . . I think that really the communal side of spirituality and the individualistic side of it are really just two aspects of one kind of spirituality. Not everyone is called to … Continue reading Communal and Individualistic Spirituality
Again, wanting to ensure we “got our money’s worth” Dr. Williams ran us ragged through Jerusalem and a few outlying areas. I would like to say parenthetically, that although most of these sites are the mostly likely places that these events occurred, and experiences there can be, and we moving, it struck me how we … Continue reading Israel Log 11 March 2011
This post is not to criticize any of my youth pastor friends. We are writing job descriptions at my church, and I was wondering, if I ever became a youth pastor again, what would my philosophy be?