Tonight Clint and I had the privilege of eating dinner with our good friends Will and Elaine Savell. Will and Elaine along with their sweet kids Emma (7) and Jack (4) are moving to Costa Rica in a few weeks to begin an incredible adventure for the sake of theContinue Reading
If you know the Strange family, then you know that we are fanatics about keeping things organized. I just finished reading Clutter-Free Home Living by Eugenia Orr because I found it for free on Kindle. We regularly go through our house and gather up a bunch of stuff to giveContinue Reading
As I continue through my summer reading list, I just finished reading Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business by Wayne Grudem. If his name sounds familiar, it is because he is possibly best known as the author of a text usedContinue Reading
My sister and her husband are two of the most generous people that I know. I might not have said the same about her when we were growing up sharing the same bedroom…but fortunately, we have both changed a good bit! Katie and JD planned a fabulous beach vacation forContinue Reading
Our theme verse for the 2011-2012 school year at North Cobb Christian School is 1 Chronicles 29:17, “I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity.” Over the course of the year, my role as a leader will be to continually direct our faculty andContinue Reading
Last year I wrote a tribute to Clint on Father’s Day. I could easily write many of the same things that I wrote last year…only adding the fact that he has loved Emma even more extravagantly this past year than he did the year before. But…in order to give youContinue Reading
I just finished The Millennials: Connecting to America’s Largest Generation by the father/son team of Thom Ranier and Jess Rainer. I have followed Thom Ranier in his role as president of LifeWay in regards to the research he has been doing for a number of years. Even thought I wasContinue Reading
Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace. Cheap grace means justification of sin but not of the sinner. Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without repentance; it is baptism without the discipline of community; it is the Lord’s Supper without confession ofContinue Reading
This afternoon I read Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God by David Platt. Radical Together is the followup to the riveting challenge Platt put forth in his previous book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream. Radical was a call to examineContinue Reading
Several weeks ago I received an email from Daniel Darling asking me if I’d be willing to review a copy of his newest book iFaith: Connecting with God in the 21st Century. I told him I would be happy to and found a copy of the book in my mailboxContinue Reading