By Jimmy Stopper I was on my way to pick my son up from school. I was really looking forward to seeing him and having some one-on-one conversation with him. As he jumped in the truck, I asked him how is day went. He gave me the normal “good.” Each one of our children is…
By Jimmy Stopper If your family is anything like ours, it is so easy to focus on the things we do not have. Our sinful hearts can long for more and more and more and are never satisfied with the things of this world because they were never meant to satisfy us. It is easy…
By Jimmy Stopper The movie, “Priceless” was released in theaters two weekends ago. The lead actor in the movie, Joel Smallbone, is one of the two brothers that make up the Christian music band, “For King and Country.” My wife and I went with another couple to see the movie the first night that it…
By Jimmy Stopper Last year, I visited my grandmother in a nursing home in Pennsylvania. At this nursing home, most of the people are completely dependent upon the staff for their basic needs. Many of the residents are in wheelchairs and can not communicate. I had a great time visiting with my grandmother. On my…
By Jimmy Stopper Several days ago, I was in the kitchen when my 10 year-old son asked me, “Dad, what is ‘The Men’s Club’?” I was not totally taken off guard by it because I remembered that we had passed “The Men’s Club” the day before on the way to a soccer game. He told me…
50 Shades of GRACE Men, I took my wife out last night to dinner and to see a newly released movie called “Old Fashioned.” I know what you’re thinking – the title seems really boring. In reality, the title is provocative in a culture where people are clamoring to see the pornographic movie, “50 Shades…
The Daddy-Daughter Dance is our annual event that intends to draw the hearts of fathers to their daughters and the hearts of daughters to their fathers. This dance was created out of the need we saw for a Christ-centered dance where dads and daughters interact together the whole night. They will make a craft together,…