D6 Blog
What Are Your Kids Watching?
You might not be old enough to remember this phrase: “It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?” This was a public service announcement used in the late 1960s through the late 1980s to remind parents to check up on their kids. Today, parents usually know exactly where their kids are—at home watching YouTube. Perhaps a new public service announcement might be: “It’s anytime in the day or night. Do you know what your kids are watching?” Think about it. The television set of the past used...
Building Bridges Between Church & Home
Bridges are a big deal. Take the Sherman Minton bridge in Louisville, Ky, for instance. It spans the Ohio River carrying thousands of drivers on I-64 from Indiana to Louisville and back every day. In 2011, inspectors discovered cracks in the structure, shut down the...
Single Digits
We all like big numbers. Whether it’s how many people clicked on our blog link, or the number of people attending our lifegroup or church event, or how many people we’ve led to the Lord (or at least how many people we can file under “witnessed-to”), how much our work...
Four Reasons Parents Must “Connect” To Their Child
Parent-child connectedness can be defined as “being closely bonded by common traditions and frequently occurring activities.” I think a good short definition would be “intentional togetherness.” It’s eating dinner five or more times a week as a family, as opposed to...
Faith For All Generations
If we want our faith to endure for all generations, we must become increasingly confident and focused about the kind of faith we are trying to pass on to our children and grandchildren. Letʼs look at what God has to say about faith. First, when Jesus speaks of His...
ramblings on fellowship.
It seems like lately I’ve had one overwhelming, absorbing thought pervading me, consuming my mental energies and my emotional storehouses, ransacking my prayer life, and dominating my conversations. One thought that’s becoming an… obsession? Maybe. But, y’all, I have...
What’s in the Bag? Helping Your Kids Understand Honor
They sat across from each other at the kitchen table. I sat on one side, my husband, JT, on the other. The four of us squared off around the table. Our girls were somewhere between seven and eight years old and it was time for a talk. Their chins just a few inches...
Real Men
Margaret Thatcher once said, “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” I wonder how true that is for men? When was the last time you felt your masculinity was challenged? I had an experience this past week that really...
How to Stay Clear of the Silent Marriage Killer
"Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive." - Ephesians 4:31 Les walked through the front door of our home this week, set a copy of the Wall Street Journal on the kitchen counter, and said, “Let’s never give...
I’m Not a Disney Mom
I just realized that this morning. Sure, we love all things Mary Poppins, and we’ve watched The Lion King enough to reenact the whole screenplay verbatim. But when push comes to shove, I just can’t get behind the whole Happily Ever After thing. Or the whole Dream That...
Millenial Dads: A Walking Contradiction?
For Millennial dads, life can sometimes leave us feeling like walking contradictions. We hear about how we Millennials are all individualists to the core. We look out for Number One and dismiss the rest. “Forget others,” we are told we cry, “It’s all about me.” To an...
Eight Generations
I recently went on a popular website to get a look at my ancestors. Truth be told, I was hunting to see if I could find any family members who might possibly be on the Cherokee Indian Roll. What I found was much more fun! With enough information, the website can show...
Setting Summer Technology Boundaries
If you are like my family, you love basking in the pleasure of summer break. There are no tests, science fair projects, homework, or anything else that resembles school. This also means your child is at home all day long, everyday, with lots of idle time on his or her...