It can be easy to take our relationships for granted. After all, if we are blessed to bear children, by default, we are related to them, but this does not mean we have an automatic relationship. Building a relational legacy requires building capacity and intentionality in our relationships. Building Relational Capacity Our busy lives leave [...]
Each season has its ups and downs, but the season of the empty nest is like no other. While some celebrate the return to a calm, peaceful existence that screams freedom, others struggle to find their sense of purpose and try to fill the void that screams what feels like the loss of their family. [...]
Legacy planning is more about preparation than the belongings we own. Clarity in your intentions and in the details of your estate helps to prepare loved ones' hearts and eases the transition when you may no longer be around. Leaving a thoughtful financial legacy depends on how we communicate, designate, donate, and relate to our [...]
Christmas is such a vivid reminder of the goodness of God—the celebration of God fulfilling His promise made hundreds of years earlier that a child would be born who would be both God and man and ultimately deliver His people from their sins and bridge the gap between God and man. The goodness of God [...]
As the final days of summer begin to fade and school looms ahead for families, the influences that our children will face have the potential to undo all that we have worked for. Raising godly children in an ungodly culture seems impossible. What's a parent to do? Maybe you've done "all the things" that should [...]
Every Father's Day is a reminder to everyone to honor their fathers. But it is also a reminder to Christian fathers to examine the hopes they have as a dad and to remind themselves to continue to press on toward those hopes. A father's hope in Christ helps the common hopes of this life to [...]
It began the first time I gazed into your eyes. A connection I had not known before. You were mine . . . but I would one day have to let you go. And as I prayed for you, cared for you, taught you, disciplined you, and loved you, my heart prayed over you words [...]
How will we be remembered? Chances are, we don't think about that much and are not able to objectively examine ourselves all that easily. But those who are in our inner sphere are watching and catching how we are living which says so much more about us than what we are saying. Sometimes legacy building [...]
It's easy to go with the flow. But time is evaporating rapidly. Every day the sand is lower in our own respective hourglasses and we have no idea when our time is up. Now that we have that encouraging thought about the brevity of our lives, perhaps it helps us to be motivated to live [...]
In our desire to leave a legacy to loved ones, we can miss the mark if we don't understand what the focus of our legacy should be. Legacy is not measured by our ability, but by the character that is behind all that we do. The substance of a successful legacy is faithfulness. The substance [...]
