Stumble Up • Personal Reflection Only Jesus • A 6:15am moment I did not see coming “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as…
Only Jesus
The Version He Showed His Dad
Seven Statements from the Cross • Week 5 • Tuesday Statement V • John 19:28 • Owen, 17, high school junior “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” — Psalm 34:18 (ESV) The Setup…
Your vulnerability is someone else’s rise
Seven Statements from the Cross • Week 2 • Monday The Thing He Never Told Anyone Statement II — Luke 23:43 • Chris, mid-40s, father of a 22-year-old “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the…
Call them back to the table
“Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” Philippians 2:4 · ESV Tom, 44, comes home on a Friday. His 14-year-old Jaylen is gaming in his room. His 16-year-old Maya is on…
Take the opportunity to correct in love
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 · ESV Dev, 49, is proud of his son Tyler. The kid is 17, already accepted early decision,…
The Sigh and Silence Says Everything
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.” 1 Corinthians 3:6 (ESV) Tyler came home Tuesday with a history test face down on the counter. He’d set his alarm for 6am three days in a row to study for…
The Hallway Coach
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” Colossians 3:21 (ESV) Brian, 45, is sitting in Sunday service trying to keep it together. He wants to worship. He wants his family to have one good hour in the…
Stay In It!
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV) Craig, 48, had a mental picture of how this season would unfold. His son Ethan would finish his degree, find some direction, start…
Generational Coaching
COACH. NOT COP. There is a moment in parenting a teenager when everything you thought you believed about discipline gets tested. Not by a small infraction. By a real lie. A deliberate one. The kind where your kid looked you…
Revisiting Cop vs. Coach (Tone and Posture)
THE 2:30AM CALL There is a moment every father secretly hopes for and never talks about. It’s 2:30 in the morning. Your kid is somewhere they probably shouldn’t be. Things have gone sideways. And instead of figuring out how to…