A police officer fingerprinted my eight-year-old son this past summer. Our children were in Lincoln last week for “Bright Lights,” a five-day summer school adventure. Aidan took a class on “Crime Scene Investigation” in which he learned how to collect clues, decipher codes, and keep a journal of observations. One day a policeman visited his class and taught him how to collect his own fingerprint. The last thirty minutes of...
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(Post by JJ Springer) Tired. Last one in the office. Need to get some work done to salvage my day. There’s movement out my window. Car. Man gets out. Chubby. Shuffling. Woman in driver seat stays. I’ve seen this before. I wish Pastor Scott was here. He knows what to do with these people. Walk out front. Auto-smile. “What can I do for you?” He’s sweating, even though it’s a beautiful day. I’ve seen him before. Not him...
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Parenting isn’t a formula. I’ve known wonderful parents who have prayed and prayed while doing their best to carry out Proverbs 22:6—“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it”—only to have a child leave home and abandon his faith. I’ve also known parents who didn’t provide any spiritual direction, and yet their child grew up to have a deep, vibrant faith in Christ. That doesn’t...
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(Post by JJ Springer) Do you know where ‘lyss’ is? No, isn’t she with you? The search was on. Incidentally, Faith (age five) was missing too. Neighbor Caleb found her quickly where we figured she would be. Inside his unlocked house. With nobody else inside. For Faith it’s always su casa mi casa. But Alyssa (age four) wasn’t with her. Double-check the yard. And the house. And the neighbor’s yard. Nope. Nope....
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In a day when ship captains push aside women to leap into lifeboats, and when leaders of universities sit on their hands when they hear about the sexual abuse of children, and when CNN’s debate moderator John King, the poor chap, gets derided for making the outrageous assumption that a presidential candidate’s personal morality is relevant…it’s refreshing to find a good example. To read the rest of this blog…visit Heritage Builders...
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By Nathan Musgrave Recently I have been reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to my 11 year old daughter. Middle Earth has swallowed her whole. I read aloud, and as we follow Frodo and Sam through the perils and triumphs, the peaks and valleys of that imaginary land, my daughter paces, she snarls, she groans, she bangs her fist on furniture, she shouts and rails at orcs and trolls and evil wizards who have the audacity to threaten her...
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