It is amazing to me how a simple phrase can express a whole season of our life.  When commenting on our journey as missionary pastors, my wife Stephanie said, “The dream of living by faith and the reality are completely different.”  What we expect at the beginning of...

This Sunday, during a wonderful time of fellowship, a member of our church began quoting C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in response to the message. From there we began discussing the incredible ideas that came out of that era and pondered what made them such...

Culture is an expression of the values of communities, and one could argue that values are a product of religion, when religion is properly defined.  More than how we worship, religion defines reality and purpose, it determines what or who is worthy to be worshipped...

The purpose of developing a Christian worldview is not to tell the world how wrong they are so we can feel better about our faith. Quite to the contrary, when we develop an authentic Christian worldview, we find goodness, truth and beauty wherever it is to be found,...

Trying to summarize the beauty and effectiveness of a classical Christian education in a short article is very challenging because whole books are written about this subject.  At the heart of a classical Christian education is the quadrivium and the trivium, which...

One of the proposals at the Liberty Hill city council recently are for a security resource officer to be hired to protect students at the local public schools. This has caused me to think a lot about the problems we are facing as a culture and raised a lot of question...

I often like to ponder the impact Christianity has made on the West after celebrating Independence Day.  When I studied the founding of the United States, I realized that the U.S. has a rich heritage that can be traced through the history of the church from the death...

This week, a potential new family at Fortis asked me about my journey toward classical Christian education. I explained that the first seed was planted as I looked at the writings of our forefathers.   Through the language and content of their writings I realized they...

The classical Christian educational movement began when Christian educators were inspired by Dorothy Sayers essay The Lost Tools of Learning to find a way to produce better educational results.  People realized modern education was not giving our children the...

Each of us has dreams that drive everything that we do.  Those dreams change as we have new life experiences and as we learn more.  This is part of growing in maturity both naturally and spiritually.   There is a progression that believers often go through that begins...