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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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Seven Keys to Great Conversations with Your Child

26 October 2018

When my oldest son was going through extreme heartache due to social pressure and pressure in the competitive high school...

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Pray for a Thankful Heart

26 September 2018

Getting back to school is a great time to develop some new family habits. As a dad, I always loved using September as a...

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The Bigger Picture

28 June 2018

Parenting is not a popularity contest nor is doing what is best for your kids long term going to put happy little faces...

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The Golden Goal post

7 March 2018

A former Kanakuk Executive Director, Kris Cooper, is about as fine a man and dad as I know. He “daddied” his own...

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