Sometime this summer new freshmen will move up and graduating seniors will move on. In other words, your group will change. Here’s one way to influence the change. Back in college we joined the men’s choir. Eternal practices, frantic sprints to reach the dining hall before it closed (one guy leapt over the hood of […]
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Lifting weights
We were at the table last night watching our son. Over the past year he got massive. As in better not arm wrestle him anymore. How did that happen? Well, he went to college, lifted weights all year, and got strong. That’s how life works. You lift, study, train, practice, or whatever, and develop strength. […]
What’s more manly than attitude?
[ . . . ] speak louder than words. Tis [ . . . ] that makes the hero. “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and [ . . . ] on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matthew 7:24; NASB). If attitude reveals the […]
Dealing with attitude
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 […]
How to love a student
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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