How Strict Should Parents Be?

How Strict Should Parents Be?

I can still recall the moment I discovered that my parents were “strict.” A college friend and I were walking to his car on the campus parking lot, and I was explaining how good I felt my relationship with Dad and Mom to be. I was now a young man, and I...
Insight into In-Laws

Insight into In-Laws

  Imagine making wedding vows to your in-laws. Frightening? Maybe you already have! Have you ever heard the beautiful words of Ruth recited by a bride at her wedding? “And Ruth said, ‘Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after...

What Home Teaches Us About Church

As a child, did you ever endure the panic of losing your mom in a crowded grocery store? Frightening stuff! You ran across the front of the store, pausing only long enough to look down each aisle intently for your missing mother.Finally, somewhere between the dairy...

Preparing Your Kids for the Real World

It was black on Highway 96, our road home from a little project at our church, Spring Meadow Baptist Church. Without warning, a clump of grass just off the shoulder gathered itself and began running alongside the shoulder, as if to race us home. Then the “clump...

What to Do When You’re the Last to Know

Apparently my Chocolate Lab, Breck, barks at night.  Usually it is late at night, when people with work to do in the morning are trying to sleep.  My neighbors knew about this problem.  Now, I do, too! I feel embarrassed.  I knew that this was a problem, but I thought...