My wife and I want to be great parents. We desire to point our son in the right direction and set him up to live a good and wise life. We want to equip him with the skills, habits, and character necessary to navigate this world, but more than anything we want to make Christ attractive to him. While good grades, polite behavior, and sound morals are good, right, and necessary we would trade them all for our son to know and follow Jesus. If at the end of our days, we can look back knowing we did our best to introduce him to the truth of who Jesus is, we will have done our job.

Our job is much more than passing along a religion or strongly held belief. It is to introduce him to the truth. Truth makes sense of reality and tells you how to live. It provides a path forward and way through the darkness. In short, trusting in Christ aligns you with the way things actually are and enables you to live in the path of the wise.

This is week 2 of our reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins together. We’re reading it as a vehicle for our improvement. We’re don’t want to waste the great opportunity our times offer. We’re seizing the initiative to grow and immerge from this shutdown better than we began. Below are my reflections for reading chapters 2 and 3.

Throughout January, I chewed upon the Proverbs like never before. As an aid in my study, I grabbed a pair of commentaries by Bruce Waltke. They are creatively titled The Book of Proverbs 1-14, and The Book of Proverbs 15-31 and are part of the NIV Commentary Series. I am grateful to these resources in helping me gain a deeper understanding of the wisdom the Proverbs were meant to impart.

This is week 1 of our reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins together. We’re reading it as a vehicle to our own transformation. We want to seize this moment (the great shutdown of 2020) to improve. We don’t want to waste the immense opportunity it affords us–the chance to emerge from our burrows better than we entered them. Below are my reflections from reading the Introduction and Chapter One.

The most desired life outcomes await us on the far side of not just hard, but intentional work. That intentional work comes in the form of effective habits. Habits that define what we do, and more importantly what we don’t do each day.

It’s easy to pay lip service to our living within clearly defined and established habits. It is quite another, and altogether more effective, to walk the path of daily discipline they require.