Parenting
What Keeps Our Young People in the Church When They Grow Up?
Walking Through Sin with Someone You Love
Dealing with sin is hard work, and messy. We know this both from the sin in our own lives, and from interacting with others. Dealing with sin in our family — those closest to us — is even harder, and can be even messier. And yet, these are the people God has brought into our lives to walk through these processes with: to whom we minister, and by whom we are…
Adoption is a weighted word…
It seems that the Lord has laid adoption before me lately more than He normally does. I’ve had numerous conversations with folks asking about child adoption, and Charity and I are talking about it as well as we consider the very real possibility that Charity may not be physically able to have any more children. I have friends that have adopted and I have a few…
A perspective on Christian dating…
I’ve been preparing for a class on “dating” for some Jr High students and so the issue of Christian Dating has been on my mind lately. What is it? Is it even a viable subject? Is there enough about “it” in the Bible to even warrant a conversation? (of course there is silly, I told myself) It’s such an interesting…