Earlier today I was driving my 2 year old son home from a day with his "Nana." At the start of our journey home my already-unhappy-to-be-stuck-with-dad-and-leaving-Nana toddler realized he was seated at just the wrong angle inside our little Malibu. He sat directly facing an intense late afternoon sun as we initially drove west out … Continue reading Cursing the Sun and other Lessons in Futility
A God Who’s All About Me
I've begun reading God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel. I'm only 33 pages in so I will be no means comment on the book in general, but I wanted to share one concept from the opening pages that caused some real reflection for me. In the context of self-clarification and self-examination, Heshel … Continue reading A God Who’s All About Me
Do Hard Things
There's a book I came across a few weeks ago that has inspired the series we're going entering in our youth program this week titled Do Hard Things. It's written by a couple of teenage twins who have been igniting a revolution of their peers against the low expectations that our culture has for teenagers. In … Continue reading Do Hard Things