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Truth and boldness.  Love and grace.  Social media alone is evidence that our world is in desperate need of both.  Too many posts to count are replete with strong opinions, fruitless rhetoric, and outright hate.  Scrolling Facebook this weekend, I found myself experiencing the heaviness of strong emotions.  And I began to wonder: As aContinue reading “Grace, Truth, and Timothy”

As this series comes to an end, it strikes me that nothing I have written has been complicated.  In a sense, it has been, well…basic.  And yet, simplicity is not the same thing as easy.  It is simple to understand the importance of servanthood in marriage and using gentle and gracious words with our kids. Continue reading “Welcome Home: Grace Upon Grace (Conclusion)”

As we conclude our focus on parenting (and the book in general) I wanted to return once more to the idea of joy, for no other reason than this: It’s so easy to get caught up in the heaviness of parenting.  The weight of raising Godly sons and daughters, of teaching and training, and ofContinue reading “Welcome Home: Joyful Parenting”

As we transition to discussing communication in the parent-child relationship, please remember that the same principles and applications already addressed for the marital relationship are still applicable.  (For instance, in our communication with our children, we should aim to edify and speak the truth in love.)  This post aims to capitalize on what has alreadyContinue reading “Welcome Home: The Language of Parenting”

In the previous post, we discussed the importance of parenting with an attitude of humility.  As the last post focused on 3 practical applications of humility, this post will focus on the attitude of respect, and 4 practical ways we can demonstrate this in our parenting.  When we talk about demonstrating respect for our kids,Continue reading “Welcome Home: Parenting with Respect”

For those who have been following along in the series, you know we have focused on the following: building a firm foundation on Christ and the Gospel; marriage setting the tone for the home; the values of a home filled with emotional safety and joy; the language of marriage; and the theological (and subsequent practicalContinue reading “Welcome Home: Parenting with Humility”

I wish I had known sooner.  For so many years, I failed to grasp the significance of the Old Testament tabernacle and sacrificial system.  Of course, I knew the tabernacle was beautiful and precisely created, just as God had instructed.  It was meant to reflect His glory and to be the place where His peopleContinue reading “Within the Veil”

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1b-2)  The night before hisContinue reading “For the Joy”

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (John 13:1)  As I read the account of the most famous supper of all, I canContinue reading “To the End”

Sometimes I just can’t believe that it’s real- that our Savior has really prepared a place for those who believe in him.  Whether through my own death or his return, that I will really be in heaven one day seems…distant and strange.  It is simultaneously my glorious hope and a source of unbelief.  For someContinue reading “Faith of a Thief”