Zeke Pipher

Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing! We put all the names in a hat (a Boston Red Sox ball cap, to be specific) this morning, and my daughter pulled out a dozen. The 12 winners of the Father’s Day book giveaway are: Richard B. Lynette K. Andrew Kevin M. […]

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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. […]

(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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“But, Dad, I thought you were the boss?”   My son asked me this question as we were driving away from church. He was genuinely confused. I’m the senior pastor, the one who stands up front and teaches others on Sunday. To a seven-year-old boy, that makes his dad “the […]

My daughters wanted to watch Soul Surfer. A couple days ago, while we were at their grandparents, Jamie and I gave the “go ahead” and they ran over to the television to put the DVD into the player. My son stayed by my side and looked down at the kitchen […]