Welcome to this newly minted blog, which has the practice and pursuit of God-glorifying parenting as its goal, authored by a fallen-made-righteous-by-God’s-grace father of three boys, caught right in the middle of the trenches, who is thinking through and seeking to live out and replicate righteous parenting, as he stewards these three, in this God-ordained calling!

I am just an ordinary Jon, a sinner saved by grace, who is seeking to parent to the best of His ability, and as such, is thinking through what this entails.  What has really promoted this blog, has been the teenage season of our eldest, as such has pushed and pointed me into this pursuit, like no other time!  I am more than aware that I too often miss the mark, and am prone to many brain-dead moments, but this calling is something that I desperately desire to faithfully complete, and because of such, this is playing a large part in life, which also means I have some thinking thoughts as a practicing parent!

Along with these three boys, I also have one wife (Ba-Dom Ching!) and as I am want to tell them, their lives are a sign of God’s grace in my life!

I trust that in your time on this blog, you will be motivated, lead, pushed, compelled, and graced to love those under your watch with the love of Christ, which was not passive in its application, but potent in living out what sacrificial love really looks like, as most evidenced in the Cross.  I hope that this blog will, in some respects, encourage you in this pursuit, as you model the Gospel of God’s grace, in and through Messiah!

If you would like to find more out about the author, you can find such information by checking out my other blogs, and I would encourage you to check these out, as they may provide more righteous material!  If you are a regular reader of books, you might be thinking that URL and header sound kinda familiar, and you would be right, with a full credit to D. A. Carson for the leg-up, in a different context.

You are invited to join this conversation and engage!  The choice is now yours!

Onward and Upward

Jonny Boy

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