Happy Thanksgiving! Today starts the season when hundreds of thousands of people will volunteer more than usual to help make the holidays special for the less fortunate. It’s an amazing time of year to see so many people coming together to feed the homeless, throw Christmas parties for underprivileged kids, …
Serving Others During the Holidays . . . And Beyond? Read More
As parents, we intuitively know our actions are even more important than our words for teaching our kids about Christianity. But what exactly should our lives look like? We have been given a very specific answer to that question in Galatians 5:22-23 – the well-known verses on the Fruits …
Fruits of the Spirit: Grading Yourself as a Christian Read More
If your family didn’t regularly pray together (out loud) when you were growing up, your idea of what prayer is and what it should sound like probably came from the prayers you heard in church. Stop a minute and think about the implications of that. Such was the case for …
So am I. Now that I have your attention, let me soften the blow. (But just a little.) By virtue of the fact that, as Christians, we are imperfect humans teaching our kids a perfect truth, our actions simply will never match our words. Our lives are, unfortunately, filled with …
Before we had kids, I read every major parenting book. I had stacks of books that I tore through, seeking to find the “best” method of parenting. To my disappointment, there was no universal agreement on what “best” meant. For some authors, if you placed a baby under 1 on …
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