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Dear Friends, As many of you old friends know, our baby Katie has an electrical problem in her heart - when we found it when she was two weeks old, her heart rate was 278 beats per minute! We nearly lost her, but God graciously spared her life. Tomorrow she is having a dangerous, but…
One thing we hear all the time is how hard it is to get boys to "sit down and do schoolwork" and when I look back at the most effective learning we've done, it's been when it was hands-on, hearts-on education. Such as when we toured Civil War sites in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on…
Kathy Brodock of Teaching Good Things says: Raising Real Men should be a regular bed-side read. It’s practical advice on raising godly young men was such a great reminder! Mothers, particularly, need to read this book. There is so much we need to understand about our boys’ differences, and understanding those differences is crucial to their growth…
We are so excited about the official release of Raising Real Men! This is something we have poured our lives into and it is very exciting to see God using it for His glory. It encourages us to read comments like: "Just received the book over the weekend. By page 2 1/2 of the introduction…
Pastor Douglas Wilson, author of Future Men (and one of our early reviewers!) talks about five aspects of masculinity in this video, "The Redneck's Last Words."
Raising Real Men will be officially released by Great Waters Press on January 29th. We're having a party to celebrate and you are invited! Every day from now until then, we'll have a giveaway - that's right, something everyone can have for free! - and a contest with fantastic resources and prizes provided by our…
Hey guys, some of you may be familiar with Jeff & Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts history kits and their awesome blog but we didn't meet them until last year when they reached out to help us deal with the financial aftermath of our little Katie's heart problem. Their love and good counsel was…
Here's a great essay from the journal First Things -- Sally Thomas' thoughts on boys, violence, and how to think about them: What I think I have come to understand about boys is that a desire to commit violence is not the same thing as a desire to commit evil. It’s a mistake for parents to presume…
Wow. A dramatic story from Haiti - a father of two, trapped and seriously injured in a collapsed building, kept calm, treated his own wounds, improvised solutions to immediate problems, then wrote bloodstained letters of Christian counsel to his sons. He was pulled from the wreckage after 65 hours. Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t…
The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that the last surviving German machine gun captured by Sgt. Alvin York in World War I has been discovered in the attic of a Massachusetts public library. ...York pulled off one of the great feats of any combat soldier of any time. He single-handedly annihilated a German machine gun battalion on Oct.…
