Do you ever wonder how you got to be where you are? Why are you here and not in prison for robbing a bank or dealing drugs? Why do you have a good job and a family and are not roaming from town to town? Why are you a Christian and not some heathen who […]
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
A Mother’s Day Reflection
May 11, 20135 Things I’ll Never Say as a Parent
April 9, 2013Being a parent is a continual learning process. You make mistakes but you keep working at getting better. No one person has parenting all figured out. Each child is different. Each child is created in the image of God. Good parenting requires a healthy dose of humility, patience, and love. A parent must be humble […]
Barriers to Conversation
March 14, 2013As Christians we are expected to engage people in conversation. God has designed us to dwell in community just as he dwells in community (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). From the beginning God said it was not good for man to be alone. God gave us the institution of marriage and created families. Families are […]
The Gift of Family
December 13, 2012This powerful story of adoption explores the meaning of family. It teaches us that giving is much more than the material things we often give this time of year.
Living in Community
August 2, 2012We often do not talk about the importance of community, even though it is present from the very beginning. God dwells in community. He is one and three. The trinity is a perfect communion. God also creates in community. The Father, Son, and Spirit all play a role in creation. In Gen. 1:26 God says, […]
Summer
June 26, 2012Every summer I hope to blog more, but it never works out that way. It has been more than two weeks since I have posted anything. One week I was at church camp and disconnected from the world. The next week I was trying to catch up on everything because I had spent a week […]
What I’ve Learned from Three Mothers
May 13, 2012Today is a special day. It is a day when we honor our mothers. We have a tendency to take holidays lightly in our culture. We commercialize Christmas and Easter. We think of holidays more as a day off, instead of contemplating the deeper meaning or tradition behind them. There is a temptation to do […]
A Homily for My Grandfather
June 20, 2011In Loving Memory of Bob Parker. July 5, 1929 – June 18 2011 For 31 years I have looked up to the man we are here to remember today. I believe it was sometime around the 4th grade when I was asked to write a paper about the person I admired the most. For me […]
New Blog
August 8, 2010Many of you who read this blog know my wife, but there are some of you who don’t. Whether you know or not I think you will enjoy her new blog. She has written a great first article and I look forward to many more. She started this without me knowing. I had to find […]
Always on the Move
May 14, 2010This week has been an adventure. We went to Cleveland for my sister-in-law’s surgery and we took Jackson with us. He is definitely mobile now. He walks, crawls, and does anything else to keep on the go. After we boarded the plane he grew restless until we took off. Sometimes we had to wait in […]
