Joe | February 8, 2010
If my boys came to me and asked me for help, would I help them? Yes, to the best of my ability but also I would do my best to guide them into figuring something out on their own. Be a coach, of sorts. It really does them no good to do for them what [...]
Category: 1 Samuel, Christian Living, Matthew, Prayer, Psalms | No Comments »
Tags: children, complaint, david, faith, Prayer, trust
Joe | October 12, 2009
Today, October 12, is my mother’s 75th birthday. I wanted to dedicate today’s post to my mother, the most important woman in my life up (until April 2001, when my wife assume that role).
Looking Back
I have nothing but fond memories of growing up as a child. I directly attribute this in large part to my [...]
Category: Parenting, Proverbs | No Comments »
Tags: birthday, children, grandmother, love, mother, Parenting, wisdom
Joe | October 9, 2009
The gentleman pictured above is Manuel Mansilla. Señor Mansilla is my maternal great-great grandfather from Ensenada, Mexico.
The picture was sent to his daughter, Natalia, my maternal great-grandmother, when she was approximately 22 years old. On the back of this photo, he wrote a note to her in Spanish. The English translation of it is:
Beloved daughter [...]
Category: Christian Living, Malachi, Parenting | 4 Comments »
Tags: children, choices, faith, wisdom
Joe | October 7, 2009
To sort of pickup where my last post left off, regarding a line of work that allows me to work from home and be with my family, I ran across a post today over at Church Crunch that talked about a career in online ministry.
The part that really got to me was:
Just imagine: Only a [...]
Category: Christian Living, Encouragement, Genesis, Hebrews, Malachi | 1 Comment »
Tags: Abraham, children, faith, family, greg laurie, ministry, priorities, suffering, trials, work
Joe | September 23, 2009
Over these past months, I’ve mentioned “issues” we’ve experienced with our teenager and some of the challenges we have faced with regarded to his education.
As I may have mentioned, we decided to home-school him for his last two years of high school. It was a huge decision for us and primarily for my wife. There [...]
Category: Deuteronomy, Home-school, Parenting, Romans, Stepfathering | 8 Comments »
Tags: children, choices, education, Home-school, stepson, teenagers