When we drop our children off at school, we hand them over to the influence and supervision of their teachers. How they teach lessons and engage with their students will…
As parents, we care about our children’s education. We want to do whatever we can to prepare them for life ahead and to help them succeed. We want them to…
Friendship is an incredible gift. It changes the way we experience life and shapes who we become. The same is true for our children and the relationships they develop at…
As our children head back to school, they face a barrage of messages concerning their identity. Many of these cause them to question their worth or seek to find it…
We live in a crazy world broken by sin. We are surrounded with daily, nearly hourly, reminders of how many things lie outside of our control. In this, it is…
The most amazing thing I know of is the gift of walking through life in a relationship with God. Nothing brings more delight and peace than living under the personal…
Do you remember going to Sunday School every week? Do you remember your teacher using cut out figures which magically stuck to a flannel background as she or he told…
Francis Chan comments, “For a long time whenever I read that we are not to grieve the Holy Spirit (Isa. 63:10; Eph. 4:30), I thought that was a bit of…
In his book A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, Phillip Keller talks about the day he bought the first sheep for his own flock. He recounts how his neighbor handed him a knife and said, “Well, Philip, they’re yours. Now you’ll have to put your mark on them.”[1]
During her last few years, my mother suffered from some very debilitating health issues. After more than six decades of serving God first as a missionary in Africa, then in home-based missions, the day came when she was pretty much confined to a chair or to her bed.
