Five Reasons to Keep Saying “Good Job”

I read an article about a decade ago when I worked with children full-time. The article was titled, “Five Reasons to Stop Saying, ‘Good Job!’” Something about the article never quite set right with me. The arguments seemed sound enough, but the idea of trying not to affirm children after they did something praiseworthy seemed [...]

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Go and Make Disciples

The Great Commission’s main thrust is that we make disciples. It’s the only verb in the passage that is an imperative. The other verbs (going, baptizing, and teaching) are all participles which tell us how we are to go about making disciples. If making disciples, then, is the command of the Great Commission, we need to [...]

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Is God Happy or Sad?

I don’t know where he got it, but my 3 year old son sometimes approaches me out of the blue and asks me, “Daddy, are you happy or sad?” I must have asked him that sometime in the past, and now (since he’s 3 years old), he’s added it to his arsenal of phrases that [...]

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