She’s up before for all nine kids, and as they wipe the sleep from their eyes, grumbling about the cruel reality of having to rise from bed, breakfast is already on the table, and she’s off to another chore. Nearly 20 years of homeschooling these young ones. Never with everything…
You might be a pure materialist. But if you believe we were created in any way in the image of God, then we cannot be fully living in reality unless we are in relationship with Him. As mentioned in an earlier post, “Our brain is a transducer”—we are body and…
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The way I think influences my behavior, and if my thinking leads to destructive actions, certain tools can be useful for transformation. This is the fundamental principle of much of modern mental health treatment. As the American Psychological Association (APA) notes: CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is based…
Dr. Casey Means has been on a crusade to change how America eats. She walked away from a promising career as a surgeon to tackle what she saw as a crisis in American health—a crisis in how the medical industry treats disease. Instead of a holistic approach focused on helping…
I’m taking my dear wife on a date today. We are going to drive to a strange place and go exploring. No small feat when you have eight children, ages 4 months to 15! In spite of the obstacles to planning such an excursion, it is important to take time…
A poem for my child? I don’t do that enough. Thankfully, Georgia and I spent some time outside yesterday before I hit the road for a few days of speaking. It was more than I could have expected, she took flight. Over and over she ran down the driveway as…
