by Duane Garner | Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have to confess something right out of the gate. I am a doodler. If I am in a meeting or listening to a lecture and I have a pen in my hand, I am drawing little cartoon characters, cars, trees, flowers and the occasional crazy-awesome spacecraft. In between, I will...
by Duane Garner | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is part three in an ongoing series of posts. Part one is here and part two is here. In the previous installment I discussed the importance of setting and managing our expectations for ourselves and our children in worship. Among those I...
by Duane Garner | Jul 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the second article in a series – the first part is here. My wife and I have taken our daughter and son to quite a number of child-oriented entertainment and educational venues over the years, and we always come home with the same observation. Children are...
by Duane Garner | Jul 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the things I love most about our congregation and the churches of the CREC is that we have the base level expectation that our children are ordinarily going to be in worship with us. We are principally opposed to the practice of shipping Christian children off...
