Star for the Journey

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  • Before the First Note

    A day goes better when the heart is tuned before life starts playing its first note. That was one of the greatest lessons my father taught me. Not through a lecture, but through the steady rhythm of his life. Dad was a praying man, but prayer was not the whole song. It was more like…

  • Room for One More

    One of the things I learned to appreciate about my father is that he never seemed to spend much time asking whether he could afford to help someone. He simply helped them. That probably sounds reckless to some people. Looking back, there were certainly times when our own circumstances weren’t exactly overflowing with abundance. We…

  • The Chapters Before Us

    Father’s Day has a way of making me think about things I didn’t understand when I was younger. Not because nobody explained them to me, but because children have a limited view of the world. They see what’s directly in front of them and assume that’s the whole story. When I was little, I knew…

  • Beyond Inheritance: When God Writes a New Family Story

    The first time the line was spoken, the mountain shook. Sand burned in the Sinai sun, and a nation camped under thunder. Moses stood with tablets in his hands, and over Israel there rolled a voice that named God by His own Name: “The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in…

  • Fireside Reflection on the Family of God

    Pull your chair for this one—because the word we’re about to touch is tender for almost everybody: family. For some, that word feels like a warm quilt—shared meals, inside jokes, people who show up. For others, it feels more like a bruise—silences that never got healed, words that went too deep, empty chairs that still…