by 12tasks | Oct 17, 2022 | Jack Taylor
I had to smile when I heard the young preacher from the prairies talk about his sense of coming into my area of the country. He had come from a place where you could see a dog running fifty miles away. Now, he stood gazing up at whitecapped peaks which tickled the...
by 12tasks | Aug 15, 2022 | Jack Taylor
I am a fan of grace. There are times in my life when I knew that talking about grace wasn’t going to be enough. Grace is undeserved favor and nothing I could do in a given situation was going to change the way I’d blown it. I’ve needed grace with my wife, my...
by 12tasks | Jul 18, 2022 | Jack Taylor
We all have traditions. They may not look like anyone else’s but we have them. Whether it’s the Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years or Easter festivities – we know where we’re supposed to meet and what we’re supposed to do. One of our family traditions is to go camping...
by 12tasks | May 23, 2022 | Jack Taylor
One temptation as parents is to make the 12 Tasks easier on their child by choosing an activity they are already achieving at and simply upping the accomplishment for that area. That can work but you need to be careful not to play into anything that might seem like a...
by 12tasks | May 17, 2022 | Shel Arensen
Our book, 12 Tasks: Creating a Rite of Passage, is beginning to have an impact on families. Here’s a testimonial from our friend Gaylene DeMars from Fresno, California. “I picked up one of your 12 tasks books and shared it with a family at church that has an...
