Last night I taught our memebership class and 27 people joined the Harrah Church community. That ‘s encouraging!

Life is challenging!  It can be difficult to stay motivated when the challenges seem overwhelming.  The key is in perspective.  As one of the leaders at Harrah Church often says, “We don’t have to eat the elephant in one bite.”

When your kids are at home they ought to feel safe.  This is pretty easy for me right now because my children are 7, 6, 4, 1, & brand new.  When my little girl says, “Daddy I’m scared of the dark”,  I simply tell her not to worry because we have an alarm and it [...]

I returned from Cincinnati last week and I am so glad to be back home.  Having a new baby and then being out of town a week really has upset my routine.

She and Abby are doing great.  We had a very smooth delivery.   Born at 2:51  pm.  and wighed 7.14 and was 21″ long.  Here is some video of Zoe’s Birthday

In chapter one of Shelter you will be challenged to adopt a divine vision for your family.  Its based on Deuteronomy chapter six where God tells Moses how a family is to function.

Here is what you can expect to read about in Shelter.  Tomorrow I will begin posting descriptions from some of these chapters. 

Here is what others are saying about Shelter. This book is a must read. It is a dynamic manuscript, from a dynamic young father, who himself is an intentional parent.  Jimmy gives us, as parents, a master plan on “How To Be Intentional”.

Parenting is tough work. Anyone who argues with you has never had children. Someone once said that when a couple has their first child, they’re able to protect their child with a two-on-one defense. Once the second child arrives, the parents are forced to move to a man-to-man defense. If the loving parents are blessed [...]

The cover and the foreword are two really cool things about my book Shelter. The publisher and I worked really hard on the cover but we were not satisfied with anything we were coming up with.  We had to be careful because we didn’t want the title to convey that the book was about trying [...]