The Value of One

(Originally posted December 10, 2008) Dinner’s finished. The Christmas lights are on. Christmas music is playing in the background (Julie Andrews singing “Joy to the World”), and snow is actually on the ground! (Update 12/8/09–It is snowing outside! ) We gather around the tree and read a chapter from Jotham’s Journey. Five years ago, a [...]

Ask me how I went twenty years of my life without P. G. Wodehouse, and I will reply that I haven’t the foggiest idea in the world. I had heard of him, of course, but I guess I associated him with the fantasy genre (something about the initials…you know, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. [...]

On a bright sunny day in November 2000, our life and the lives of many other people were changed forever when a pastor’s wife killed her daughter and committed suicide. Through this tragic circumstance my dad began searching God’s Word for the answers to the movement that had ultimately cost the mother and daughter their [...]

  For the past few weeks I have been reading the book Get Married by Candice Watters. Wow. What a book! (To see and read more about the book, go here.)   In a day of delayed marriages in the secular world and over-spiritualized singleness in the Christian world, Get Married is a breath of [...]

Fourteen days till Christmas. Where did the time go?????????? It was just yesterday that we were celebrating Thanksgiving! So I’m going to try and devote my posts to Christmas for the next few weeks. Tis the season. I want to talk about some of our Christmas traditions. So I’ll start with one of our favorite. Dinner’s [...]