Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem. In our nation, that is your right. In Mozambique, during the civil war, students had to make decision of standing and saluting the flag, or running for their lives while bullets flew. Not standing at attention was against the law. Right or wrong, disrespectful or otherwise, this is not […]
Why I don’t want my kids to be successful
I turned on the TV for a couple minutes last night to see Bear Grylls and Nick Jonas try to conquer a mountain. Nick gets a rat put down his pants. I let my kid play Marvel Lego Superheroes on the TV at this point. But not before Bear and Nick had a conversation. Bear […]
Time to celebrate the failing of another Mega-church pastor.
Doggone it, I want to cry. Another one bites the dust. Pastor Perry Noble had to step down from New Spring church. The pundits are out in full force. “I told you so.” “Mega-church pastors are evil.” Similar sentiments echo every single time one of the good guys goes down. And to me, they are […]
Why this Duck Dynasty Star should never get lucky with his wife.
My daughter’s favorite show these days is Jep and Jessica, the spin off from Duck Dynasty. My little butterfly loves “the Rednecks” original show and so adding kids into the mix is exciting. The show is about as exciting as watching grass grow if you ask me. In an early episode, Jep does manage a […]
Hillsong’s Naked Cowboy Fiasco, and the leadership quandary.
The internet, a least the internet that cares about such things, blew up last week when someone posted video of a youth pastor from Hillsong New York jumping around on stage dressed as “the Naked Cowboy” (who by the way, wasn’t naked but certainly was appropriately dressed.) “Ah ha! See, we told you Hillsong is […]
3 ways to help your friends who have a disabled child.
My son has DMD. He’s in a wheelchair. He’s 12. He can’t run, jump, or walk. He used to be able to. But DMD has taken that away. His favorite class in school this year is English. He loves his teacher. She’s a superstar. His second favorite class? P.E. That’s right. The one class where […]
A genius parenting hack applied to business.
I wrote yesterday about my dad’s accidental parenting genius. By asking his kids which movies he should see, my dad not only empowered us with decisions that impacted our lives, but also decisions that impacted his life. He trusted us to maintain his integrity. In business, it may be easy to empower employees to most decisions […]
Accidental parenting genius
My parents are great. Loving, affirming, invested, they were great. Not perfect though. They were still annoying, out of touch, awkward and all those things that good parents are required to be by some strange law of nature. Take for instance my dad. Dad doesn’t go to movies, but he likes to watch them at […]
3 last minute gifts guaranteed to please
It’s the day before Christmas and the stores are packed. What can you give that person you know well? You are wondering the aisles, thinking how meaningless the whole thing is. What do you get to truly express your heart? Or the relative showing up at the party that you know nothing about? Here are […]
Why it doesn’t matter if Bryan Huston and T.D. Jakes do or don’t support gay marriage.
The blogsphere is alive and well friends. Full of decent journalism, no. But alive and well, yes. Christians have eagerly shared articles claiming to show Hillsongs’s supposed endorsement of homosexual lifestyle at their New York campus. Opps, turns out that it’s not quite the whole story. But those links are still up there, alive and […]