Author: Paul Santhouse

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I’m also a husband, father, and grandpa. And I’m part of the Moody Publishers* team. Since I've worked with books for nearly four decades, and I believe the local church is where we become the kind of people Jesus would be in our shoes, that's mostly what this blog is about. Thanks for visiting. Paul *As this is my personal blog, the views and opinions expressed herein are my own, not those of my employer.

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Put a young guy in a fast car with good friends and thunderous music, and what does it spell? Attitude. Strutting, shoving, chest-butting, trash-talking, risk-taking, death-defying, arrogance-wreaking attitude. Attitude is influence. It commands a response and gets what it wants. (Or, sometimes, what it deserves.) The funny thing is . . . it’s vapor. It neither […]

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It’s crazy — most parents love their kids so much they’d sacrifice their own lives if it would help their kids love God, avoid injury, escape pain, and so on. We love our kids. Meanwhile, our kids don’t always feel the love. Why is that? In his updated edition of The Five Love Languages of […]

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Think about your boss if you have one. How does your boss treat you? Like a professional? A respected colleague? An adult? Or like a problem, a liability, or a kid? One of our students is working as a carpenter this summer. He’s part of a crew upgrading a vast campus of buildings. And the […]

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Trivia question: When the United States entered World War Two in Europe, who was the enemy? (Hint: They didn’t speak German. Or Italian.) Those first few battles were against . . . the French. Looking back, this makes no sense. Even then it made no sense. The Germans invaded France and subordinated the French to […]