Phillip Snyder

I wonder what my children will say about me when they’re grown. The world is full of parents who’ve tried their best and now the men and women they once called “child” won’t answer the phone when they call. Far better men than me have held the title “father” and have trained up children in the way they should go, only to watch that famous Proverb be proved more a general rule rather than a concrete, spiritual law. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

The older I get, the more I realize just how remarkably unprepared I am for the complexities of life.

[As originally seen in the Christian Post] For much of my life, I have spoken to, and heard from, the Lord. This communication is called “prayer”, of course, but over the years it’s felt far more comfortable than the formality that word contrives in my mind. At its height, it has felt like breathing, as if I only needed to think of God and there He was, talking with me as one might with a friend.

The Importance of Context I’m terrible at remembering the address (chapter and verse) of any particular line of Scripture. That leads me, more often than I’d like to admit, over to Google where I search the key words of the verse to get the verse’s accurate wording and address. For this topic, I wanted to begin by quoting a verse that went something like, “As much as it is up to you, live at peace with all men”.

A Reflection on the album “Baptized Imagination” by King’s Kaleidoscope

What We Don’t Talk About

It’s Not Complicated We were in the “debate” portion of Speech & Debate during my senior year, when I made a classmate cry.

An Accidental News Fast In June and July of last year my wife and I experienced loss and grief, the kind that just rocks you to your core. We each responded in our own way, but for me I did a lot of recoiling from things that had previously occupied my time.