Don’t Lose Your Influence

I didn’t full appreciate the importance of parental influence until I moved to the Northwoods of Wisconsin and started working at Victory Academy for Boys. When I was there, I ministered to teens in crisis, and every family that sent their boy to our school had one...

Parenting Isn’t Your Purpose

If you regularly follow American politics, you likely recognize that America has been obsessed with identity. According to the internet, Identity Politics is a political approach that centers on the shared experiences and concerns of groups based on factors like race,...

Five Steps to Becoming a Premeditated Parent

I’ve been podcasting for nearly 10 years, and one of my podcasts is called Truth.Love.Parent. Early on, the tagline for the show was “we’re dedicated to helping you become an intentional, premeditated parent.” When I asked my wife what she thought of that...

Self-Esteem: A Biblical Perspective on a Murky Concept

When discussing secular psychiatry, honest participants will acknowledge that we all tend to speak far too concretely about topics on which we have little to no consensus. For example, in an article written in 2003 for the National Institute of Health entitled “The...

Valentines, Communism, and Communicating Biblically

Back when I used to teach sixth grade in a Christian school outside of Chicago, one of my fellow elementary professors broke the news to me like this, she said: “All of your students have to give a valentine to everyone else in the class.” Even now, all these years...