At graduation services I share four simple goals for success. The first time I shared these concepts with an audience I could not believe the response. After the graduation, parents came up to me, asking, “What was that second point?” and “What was point three?” and...
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.—Mark Twain There is an epidemic of mediocre, prayer-less, visionless, immoral, irresponsible men in our culture. And if we continue to train our sons the same way, we will not stem the tide. If we see home...
I think my son is turning into a man. Finally. (Big sigh.) Just yesterday, for the first time, he drove solo into Parker from our home here in Elbert County, Colorado. Of course, Brenda and I were praying fervently. I called him on his cell phone to remind him to make...
It hangs on my office wall, a simple wooden plaque not as long or as wide as the lid of a shoebox. My desk is parked against that wall and the plaque is roughly centered, right at eye level. I see it every time I look up. It says, “Dad, I think the sun rises and sets...
In my experience, men have a tendency to fall into two categories: people guys or project guys. Either we like people and don’t care much for projects, or we love working on projects and find people to be somewhat of an interruption of our goals. People...
