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Earning Grace

Ashley and I have been reading Brennan Manning’s The Ragamuffin Gospel as part of her internship here at Bayshore, and there’s one idea that has been coming up again and again: We’re really hung up on trying to earn grace. Many of our youth are...

The Gift of Grace

Romans 6:23 reminds us that, though the wages of sin is death, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, but how often do we forget that?  How often do we try to earn our eternal life instead of simply accepting it as a gift from God?  This was the...

Outreach and Earthworms

My mom is a gardener, and let me tell you: there are few better environments for a young boy than a gardener’s household.  All those creepy crawlies that boys are instinctively drawn to (spiders, snails, etc.)– my mom was never grossed out by them; she would...

Selfie-Esteem

While I was working on the high school brain post, a lot of information surfaced on the topic of digital self image and led to a second post… The internet is a strange, strange place.  Toddlers and cats can become celebrities.  Google, Amazon, and Netflix have...

The High School Brain

A while back, I wrote a blog post about the transitions that middle school students face (not just in terms of their learning environments, but their actual brain chemistry), and I promised two follow-up pieces on high school and college students.  Well, that time has...