D6 Blog
Shaping Your Child’s Inner Voice: Using Faith and Conversations to Guide Their Hearts
The Christmas season is a beautiful time to reflect on God’s promises and create intentional moments of connection with your children. Amid the holiday excitement, there’s an opportunity to start meaningful conversations that deepen faith and build emotional bonds. Use this season of hope and joy to engage your child’s heart, making the most of the time you spend together to shape the inner voice they’ll carry with them for life. As parents, we often long to know what our children are truly...
Parenting as a Christian in an Overly Sexualized Culture
It is not an overstatement to say we live in an overly sexualized culture. As a Christian, this is both alarming and disturbing. It is hard enough to navigate these waters individually, but it is even harder to navigate as a parent. My wife and I have eight children....
Daddy, Why Did God Let Me Have Diabetes?
Two of our three children were born with Congenital Hyperinsulinism, a rare genetic disorder of the pancreas, that causes blood sugar to constantly bottom out to dangerously low levels. Shortly after birth they each received a 98% pancreatectomy, and they are now...
Discovering the Heart Issue Behind the Struggle of Sexual Sin
Many people think sexual sin is simply a lust struggle. All sexual sin is a lust struggle for sure, but that is not all it is. People often run to porn or sexual sin to find love, acceptance, and intimacy, but sadly, pursuit of sexual sin leaves them feeling shame and...
12 Reminders When Anxiety Strikes
COVID-19 numbers are spiking again, an ugly election season has left us all tired and irritable, and the summer sun has disappeared and decided to quarantine like the rest of us. With all of the mess that surrounds us, it’s rare to find a person who isn’t anxious,...
An Apprenticeship In Integrity
“If Tom said it, you could bank on it.” Tom was my grandfather. “He was always the same, wherever he was, whoever he was with,” a neighboring farmer affirmed at Tom Haun’s funeral. He “got his life straightened out,” as he called it, after a mule fell on him one day...
Tips for Getting to Church on Time and Having a Christ-honoring Sunday Morning
You can spot them a mile away. Her makeup was clearly done in the car, and she’s wearing the same dress she’s worn three Sundays in a row. He’s got a giant coffee stain on his shirt and a look that screams, I just want to go home and get back in bed. You know who I’m...
How To Serve With Boldness
I remember how the book felt in my hands: 600 pages heavy, yet it didn’t deter my curiosity and desire to dig in. The title captivated me: How Now Shall We Live. Page by page, the beloved and belated author, Chuck Colson, convinced me and filled in the questions of...
Walking Through a Season of Disappointment
The pandemic our world is experiences is unraveling every area of normalcy in our lives. Our interactions with others have changed because of this new concept and mandate of social distancing. Major life events, such as graduations, weddings, birthday celebrations,...
Mirror Mirror on the Phone
“I’m struggling with comparison. It is eating me alive and all I can think about. Everywhere I turn I find my mind wandering to who I’m not, what I don’t look like, what I don’t have. Can you give me advice?” I receive texts like this all the time. Whether you’ve sent...
Faith and Anxiety
Over the past year, our world has experienced uncertainty and confusion as we’ve been forced to adjust to a “new normal” that is anything but normal. In these unprecedented times, fear has risen and anxiety has soared in much of the population. We felt it beneficial...
Is Your Church Netflix or Blockbuster?
When your kids interrupt a conversation, you teach them about patience and manners. Culture, on the other hand, displays little restraint in disrupting our norms. I lead a group of Master’s students annually through historical disruptions and how culture is changed...
PRESS RELEASE: D6 Publishes D6 EveryDay Curriculum
D6 to Release D6 EveryDay, the Most Complete Family Discipleship Experience for All Generations D6 EveryDay gives families much-needed tools for discipleship in biblical truth Nashville, Tennessee—Christian parents face a daunting challenge in today’s world. If there...