To My Daughter, On Her 16th Birthday
My last blog post was titled “Why Sane People Talk To Themselves, Part 1“, subtly hinting that a “Part 2” hid just around the corner and would leap out at the next opportune moment. Obviously,
My last blog post was titled “Why Sane People Talk To Themselves, Part 1“, subtly hinting that a “Part 2” hid just around the corner and would leap out at the next opportune moment. Obviously,
This post will be short because today’s principle is simple, but life-changing. Here it is: Love trumps fear every time. I’ve heard it said that we are born with only two fears: a fear of
Let me begin with a short confession: the secrets you are about to read expose me for what I really am. I am a self-centered and indulgent little man with very narrow desires and I
We live in The Therapeutic Age, an era marked by a fixation on social, emotional, and psychic well-adjustment, often in that order. Self-improvement is the special-of-the-day. We worship a therapeutic God, reformed into an image
The smallest word packs the biggest punch; in this case, it’s an absolute game changer. You and I could use an imaginative shift, a new way of seeing things, and reclaiming “But” is an easy
If you want to be a millionaire, you have to be good at anticipating (or so rumor has it). Millionaires aren’t caught by surprise because they’ve planned ahead. They’ve prepared for any contingency. The same
I wrote in another blog post that “parents who don’t harness the imagination will be held hostage by it.” Meaning, they’re either intentional about how they see/imagine things or they’re not. Unintentional imagining can have
Paul Tripp provides some vision training with this great quote and I think it will help not just with parenting, but with all our relationships: “People struggling with life in a fallen world often want