The Onoda family needed more than a simple vacation. After a year of emotional upheaval, this family of five was looking for a place where they could be free from distractions so that they could begin the process of healing and reconnecting with each other.

Do you find yourself barking at things?

Grace and identity are not theological positions to club others down with any more than joy and delight are types of mustard.

You're not the bad cop. You're not the tough guy who wins, but actually loses. And you get to be his dad. You get to be his friend. You get to be his parent.

What if I wanted to destroy you? Without anyone knowing and without you ever suspecting that I had negatively impacted you, what would be my game plan?

Sadly, bad parenting often masquerades as good parenting.

As I seek to understand the times in which we live, I believe that there are three values we must, MUST, embody as Christ followers, if our testimony is to have any credibility at all.

But seriously, the best time to work on your roof is while it is dry, and also BEFORE it has started to leak. 

Fear rules us. It’s in the driver’s seat of the modern family influencing every relationship, dictating every decision, and characterizing every circumstance.