

When It's Time To Be A Parent
10 March 2025
Parenting is not a popularity contest nor is doing what is best for your kids long-term always going to put happy little...
Jim Ryun
10 February 2025
My friend Jim Ryun was one of the all-time great track and field distance runners. He was the first high school athlete...
Suffer Well
13 January 2025
Happy and optimistic New Year from your “amputee grandpaw” from my Kanakuk winter home. I’m loving my graphite legs...
Be Imitators of Christ
9 December 2024
I was driving down the road in our Ozark hometown on December 1st not too many years ago. Now, you’ve got to understand...
Cries of the Heart - Part 2
3 December 2021
At the top of the list of “things I wish I would have known” as a young and naïve father of four children, my five-decade...
The Cry of Every Child's Heart
30 September 2021
In a moment of parental frustration have you ever asked your child (just before you pulled your hair out), “What’s wrong...
The Child that Breaks your Heart
24 March 2020
Springtime in the Ozarks is amazingly beautiful! With countless flowering trees that shower the mountainsides, clean water...
Families Who Plan
20 February 2019
After fifty years of watching families who succeed, three things have held amazingly true: Families learn from other families....
How To Pray For Your Children
31 January 2019
HOW TO PRAY FOR YOUR CHILDREN PRAY: FOR THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD that they may know ‘how wide and long and high...
Christmas Poem 2018
18 December 2018
I was driving down the road on December 1st not too many years ago. Now, you’ve got to understand that in Branson, Christmas...