Daily Choices. Spirit Over Flesh. Proverbs 24:16
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…
“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…
“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,…
“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…
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Ephesians 4:29 (ESV) Ephesians 4:29 uses the word corrupting;…