I attended the Holbrook Family Reunion this past weekend and enjoyed a great time with aunts, uncles, and lots of cousins.  Joel my oldest didn’t want to leave when it was time to go.  Joel’s crying brought back memories of my childhood.

Here is a link to a recent interview I had regarding my book  Shelter. Click here to read interview.

When I was a kid and I wanted to go skating on Friday night I always started by asking my mom if I could go.  She always said, “Ask your father.”  So I would go to my dad and say, “Dad can I go skating mom said it was okay?”

Marriage is amazing!  I mean God created this incredible institution where two people are brought together and complete each other.  What blows me away is that no one on this planet knows me better than Abby, and she still loves me.

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.

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 [...]