In celebration of the Easter season, John recorded a special podcast series that will take you on a journey through Easter Week. Each day from Palm Sunday, March 24th, to Easter Sunday, March 31st, we'll be publishing a new episode. Subscribe...

How have you learned the Father?

This is one of the most central questions to our spiritual formation.  It’s a question posted by George Macdonald as he unpacks Sonship in Unspoken Sermons.  It’...

I pulled out of the carpool line at the kids school today and felt a blog rising up in my heart.  Rather than write it I sensed the Holy Spirit’s nudge to record it as an audio.  Never did that before but hope it’...

Talk less, listen more.

Why is it so important to make your point?

Why is it so important to be right?

~ Dave

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction;pay...

Stasi – my source of great worship music – just played a new song for me last night that captures something God put on our hearts in a big way these past few months. It’s called “Suddenly” (by Daniel Bashta) and the opening lines go like this:...

What a phenomenal title.  I wish I could take credit from it, but I borrowed it from a chapter title of a much better writer than myself, Matthew Crawford, in Shop Class as Soul Craft.  I strongly recommend reading his book.  One of the...

"Why, God?"

The young man was lying on the bathroom floor, in a foreign country; he had passed out and was covered with yuck. He is a beautiful young man, a friend of my sons, a follower of Christ, bright, creative, gifted. He has also...

God is clearing the land and rebuilding his kingdom with you.

Wear work gloves.

Your best days are yet to come.

When your memories exceed your dreams, you are headed for the grave. – Bart

I will always...

For Men Only!

Hey fellas!  If you are anything like my husband, you don’t care much for Valentine’s Day.  John does not like to be told that on February 14th, he is to be Mr. Romance, pull out all the stops, and sweep me...