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Having Better Disagreements

You’ve no doubt noticed that there’s a lot of disagreement between people in our world. This is nothing new. But is it just me, or are we getting worse at handling disagreements? Here are ten questions to ask yourself if you would like to improve the quality of the...

Developing Capable Children

As many of our children are returning (or have already returned!) to school in the coming weeks, I want to share seven strategies for developing capable children from the book “Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World” by H. Stephen Glenn and Jane...

Resistance

Last week I invited you to reflect on the value of an assist. Setting others up for success, facilitating the progress of others, and enabling others to go farther are all hallmarks of the assist. In Scripture, assists can include an alabaster jar of ointment, a...

The Value of an Assist

One of my favorite plays in basketball is the assist, which describes what happens when one player passes the ball to another just before that player scores. If the shot-maker is like a parent, then the assist-maker is like a grandparent, without whom the shot would...