Category: Family

  • Who Do You Need to Sabbath For?

    Who Do You Need to Sabbath For?

    We often talk about why we should Sabbath, but I can’t recall every hearing who we should Sabbath for. Maybe we should begin considering that.

  • The 23 Best Podcasts of 2024

    The 23 Best Podcasts of 2024

    I listened to over 700 podcasts this year and these are my favorite ones!

  • 2025 Goal: Become the Richest Man in the World

    2025 Goal: Become the Richest Man in the World

    My goal is to become the richest man in the world this year. But what makes someone “the richest man in the world”?

  • Parenting is Coaching

    Parenting is Coaching

    A critical mistake by Tyrique Stevenson made me wonder how I would coach him out of this mistake. It also taught me about parenting.

  • Sabbath Devotional: Doubting My God

    Sabbath Devotional: Doubting My God

    One of my family’s pillars of our Sabbath day is our Sabbath devotional and wanted to share one with you for your Sabbath!

  • A Peek Into My Sabbath: A Set Apart Day of Delight

    A Peek Into My Sabbath: A Set Apart Day of Delight

    One of the most helpful things for me when I started Sabbathing was hearing about others’ experiences of Sabbath. Here, I share about my Sabbath.

  • 7 Things I’ve Learned in 7 Years of Sabbath-Keeping

    7 Things I’ve Learned in 7 Years of Sabbath-Keeping

    Over the last seven years, I’ve been keeping the Sabbath. As I’ve reflected on what I’ve learned over these seven years, here are some thoughts!

  • Thoughts On Rest

    Thoughts On Rest

    While my family was in Idaho—totally unplugged from phones, Internet, and cable—I realized two truths that rest teaches us.

  • How a Single Kiss Reminded Me of the Value of Integration

    How a Single Kiss Reminded Me of the Value of Integration

    After hearing of Julien Bernard’s fine for stopping his bike for a momentary kiss with his wife and son, it got me thinking about how our culture resists integrating our family with our work.

  • The Hat I Can’t Take Off

    The Hat I Can’t Take Off

    We talk a lot about “hats” that we put on and take off. The longer I’ve been a father, though, the more I realize that fatherhood (and motherhood) isn’t a hat to put on and off, but rather, a part of my identity I carry with me wherever I go.