By: Linda Merriott Retired educator and administrator of 38 years, Lubbock, TX How do we help our children develop good character and integrity? We have to be very intentional. If we are not, our children will be taught the character traits of the culture simply by default. One of the most important ways to develop character is to study God’s …
By: Linda Merriott Retired educator and administrator of 38 years, Lubbock, TX How do we help our children develop good character and integrity? We have to be very intentional. If we are not, our children will be taught the character traits of the culture simply by default. One of the most important ways to develop character is to study God’s …
“One generation shall praise Thy works to another” (Psalm 145:4). I struggle with this since none of my family members live in our city. As I grappled with maintaining a touchpoint, especially with my grandchildren, I remembered that censorship of social media and texts was common in our days in Asia. Maybe a handwritten note would be something the grandchildren …
By Joyce Herron – Founder of Trinity Christian School, Lubbock, Texas In a couple of months, I will be 90 years old. As I look back and ponder more than 42 years in education, growing up in a family of eight, coaching at a family coaching center, and time spent with my own family, I asked myself, “What are the …
By: Joyce Herron, Founder of Trinity Christian School, Lubbock It was 3:15 a.m. on Monday, July 28, 1999. I was sitting on the only seat in my house, not on bricks or stilts. Being a person who likes order, I tried to make some sense of the week I had just experienced. My last day at work before some off …
By Joyce Herron, Founder of Trinity Christian School, Lubbock, TX Invalidation is to reject, ignore, mock, judge or diminish someone’s feelings. Emotional abuse victims can become so convinced that they are worthless that they believe that no one else could want them. Their ultimate fear is being all alone. Recently, as I was reading John 5, I recalled a lesson …
By: Mark Persall “Be ye kind, 1,2,3, Ephesians 4,3,2.” At two years old, our daughter Hannah was learning to memorize scripture. In the meantime, she was also learning to count to ten. She was excited to learn and was making progress. She wasn’t great at making sense when she combined the two. It has been a few years since …
We are our child’s first and most influential teacher. But the kind of teacher we are depends on the kind of heart we have because whatever is on our heart will spill out of our mouths (Matthew 12:34). We do well then to diligently listen to Moses: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and …
Over the years, our viewpoint of our moms change. The cool mom that we have as a preschooler morphs into the world’s most annoying woman during our teenage years. Then sometime into our adulthood, we wake up and realize just how amazingly wise and irreplaceable our mother really is. My mom is gone now, but I learned so much from her. …
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1) Yesterday, we talked about the similarities between parenting and herding sheep. If we were to substitute the idea of shepherding with our lives as parents (even as spiritual mentors), Psalm 23:1 might sound something like this: “My parents take such good care of me that …
