Our First Four Years—A Retrospective
Four years ago today my family arrived at our new home in the Philippines. Everything seemed strange, opaque; a new, inscrutable reality in which everything …
Finish Your Year With a Bang—100 Day Challenge
We’ve written before about binge reading the Bible—the idea of getting through the entire book in a short enough time that you can still remember …
Embodying Masculinity in a World that Rejects It
I was recently invited to speak for a weekend conference for men, discussing our roles in the family and the church. Topics like this kill …
Find Your Passion? Or Live for a Greater Cause?
I try not to make a habit of this, but I’m going to start out by telling you a lie. It’s a lie that you …
From whence come these wars and fightings?
Racism and the national response to it is back in the news. In one sense, it’s hard to say it’s back in the news because …
Bible Study Tools That Don’t Cost a Dime
Ranging from complex to simple, here are four Bible study tools that are fully online, completely free, and will help you more thoroughly engage with Scripture.
Smart Machines and Foolish People
We humans like to talk about human ingenuity as our own greatest hope. We’re confident that if we work together we can solve society’s worst problems. We’ll even pretend that we can deliver the planet. But we’d also like to keep the argument in our back pocket that when things go badly wrong God should have done something.
Parenting: Taking Time for the Tender Moments
If I want my children to give me their heart, I must not miss those tender moments when they offer it.
Go Make Some Real History
It’s a historic day! Today the 44th president of the United States steps down to be replaced by the 45th. I’m always amazed to watch …
Meditations From Binge-Reading the Bible
If you read our last post, I talked about recently having the privilege of giving a solid week to nothing but Bible reading. Going from cover to …