Family
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When Is It Too Late to Play Catch-Up?
I am typing these words after returning home from attending our oldest grandson’s high school graduation. That experience has caused me to do some thinking about how some people wait until it is way too late to play catch-up in something that is extremely important. There may be some areas in our lives when it is possible, at least to some extent, to play catch-up. If one fails to save and invest money at a young age, it might be possible to, at least to some extent, play catch-up by saving and investing larger sums later in life. If a student fails to begin a term paper or study for an exam early…
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Graduation Day
It seems like it was only yesterday when I was staring through the window of a hospital newborn nursery. I was looking at one of the five most beautiful babies ever born (yes, I am prejudiced). He was our first grandchild, and I was so in love with him that I told the hospital cleaning lady that she needed to come with me to see him! Last Saturday tears of joy and pride (and a little sadness) streamed down my face as I heard “Pomp and Circumstance” being played and watched that young man walk into an arena to graduate from high school. Could eighteen years have passed so quickly? If you…
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525,600 Minutes
In the musical Rent, there is a song that reminds the listeners that there are 525,600 minutes in each year. Recently, I heard that song performed as part of a middle school choir show, but my mind turned away from the musical and to the lyrics of another song. It is a song we do not sing in worship as often as we once did, but the lyrics still resonate in my mind from time-to-time. The most poignant line of that song, in my opinion, asks the following profound question: How are we using God’s golden moments?“Into Our Hands,” Tillit S. Tedlie As I put the thoughts of these two…
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Episode 121: How Your Children Remember the Mundane Stuff [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_121.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here.) We often look at some days or routines and boring, or even as a failure. But, if you are with your children, how will they remember those things? Today, Adam and Leah encourage parents to keep being with their kids, because it may surprise you how your kids remember those things.
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What Happened to Childhood Innocence?
My precious children aren’t so young any longer. I am the father of a teenager and another who will be a teenager in less than a year. We are closer to driving in our future than we are to Kindergarten in our past. It really does come at you fast. In the midst of that, we know our children have to grow up and mature. Each year (in fact, almost each day), they have to learn how to interact with and encounter deeper issues. Try as we might to protect them, we know they are coming. But our culture wants the first, strongest, and coolest word in these issues, and…
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Something You Can Do That People Will Never Forget
This past Sunday evening I preached a sermon with the lesson text coming from 1 Kings 2. This is David’s charge to his son Solomon just before his death. I was using this passage as a jumping off place for a lesson for our graduates. The goal was to give them advice in order for them to lead successful, godly lives. My second son, Daniel, who has this uncanny ability to look deeper into the text and point out something other people miss, made a comment to me afterward about the passage. He mentioned a man that I had somehow overlooked who was remembered along with his sons. If I…
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She Lives On
Mother’s Day is this Sunday and while I am blessed to be the mother of two wonderful children who always make me feel very special on this day (and many other days), I am always a little sad. I won’t be buying a special gift and card for my mother or cooking dinner in her honor. It has been ten years since my mother left this life. I think about her daily and I recall many things she taught me on an almost daily basis. Anytime I use Proverbs 31 when I am speaking, her face is the one I give to that virtuous woman. Let me share with you…
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Free Resources for Memorizing Facts about Luke
Each year, Lads to Leaders chooses a book (or books) of the Bible to emphasize for Bible Bowl and from which the annual theme is selected. For 2019-2020, that is the book of Luke. We try to incorporate that particular book into several things we do as a family, while also encouraging our young people at church to learn more about the book, too. So, this year, we have two things we want to share with you for free that you might find helpful in studying Luke for the next several months. Centurion of Scripture In Centurion of Scripture, students memorize 100 verses of the Bible. For Lads to Leaders,…
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I Have No Idea How God Did That
I was just realizing that, even though I had intended the title of this article for a specific thought, it would be possible for the sentiment in the title to be true on numerous occasions. As Paul wrote to the Roman church, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” (Rom. 11:33). But for this moment I am thinking of one thing in particular – one thing that God did that I still can’t comprehend. This article will post in our bulletin this week. Sunday when our members read it will be both…
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One Man and One Woman for Life!
At times some statements are heard so frequently that we fail to really listen to them. They might even become a part of our own vocabulary. We may recite the familiar phrase without giving a great deal of thought as to its meaning. Recently, I heard one such phrase. A good brother in Christ and fine gospel preacher “informed” those who were listening to him about God’s design for marriage. He said (as have many others before him), “God’s plan for marriage is for there to be one man and one woman for life.” For some reason, for the first time, hearing that statement on that occasion caused my mind…
