How to Find Balance in your Family – Ephesians 6:1-4

by | Jun 18, 2013 | Family

Balance is important in family life. It’s easy to understand the give-and-take that needs to keep a marriage strong: Husbands need to show love to their wife and a wife needs to respect her husband (Ephesians 5:22-33). Yet, it is often overlooked that parents...

Balance in Marriage – Ephesians 5:22-33

by | Jun 17, 2013 | Family

We played Twister when I was a kid.  Twister is a game of physical skill. It’s played on a plastic mat with 4 rows of colored circles. A spinner determines which color to put a hand or foot. Eventually, players find themselves in positions that cause someone to fall....

3 Ways to be a Perfect Dad – Matthew 6:6-13

by | Jun 16, 2013 | Family

No, I am not the perfect dad. I feel like the dad who had a second-grader who, when asked to write about his personal hero, decided to write about her dad.  Her dad asked ‘Why did you pick me?’ She responded, ‘Because I couldn’t spell Arnold...

Flag Day

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Uncategorized

Flag Day is my dad’s dad’s birthday – my papaw. He would have been 115 years old this today (2013).  (It’s interesting to me that the men in my dad’s family were all born on holidays – my dad on Halloween and his brother, Gary, on...