Don’t Be A Neighbor
Well maybe we should say, don’t just be a neighbor. At OBCC we actually want to meet our neighbors and connect with them. But did you...
Parenting ALL the Phases
As we wrap up our Parenting Through the Phases series, we thought it’d be appropriate to ask a couple that is parenting ALL the...
Was he crazy?
For the last few months, you can’t drive down a street in our city and not see the blue ribbons. Each one a painful reminder of one of...
Singing In The Rain: Parenting A Special Needs Child Through The Unexpected
A conversation with one of our church families who is parenting three children through the early phases, two of which are special...
Parenting A Disabled Child (Part 3 of 3): Finding The Blessings Amidst Your Broken Dreams
Raising one-abled bodied child and one physically disabled child was tough. Everything is different. While both children were learning to...
Parenting A Disabled Child (Part 2 of 3): Working Through The Challenges of Your Child’s Special Needs
Because we lived overseas, our daughter wasn’t diagnosed with cerebral palsy until she was 14 months old. Once she was diagnosed and the...
Parenting A Disabled Child (Part 1 of 3): When God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayers The Way You Hoped
Pam and I prayed for children—for healthy children. God answered and blessed us with a boy, born in a hospital in the mountains of Papua,...
Keeping Our Religions Straight
We all need to be careful that we don’t confuse our religions. In Dallas Willard’s book the “Divine Conspiracy”, I was captured by...
Looking at Good Friday With Fresh Eyes
You have experienced God in a way Jesus had not…until Good Friday. And every day non-Christians experience it. That experience is called...