Tag Archives: Faith

Parents, we live in a world where countless children are starting to view pornography in their preadolescent years.* And it isn't safe to assume our children won't somehow fall into that category...

It’s stashed in a faded plastic bucket in the attic, its pages dog eared, spine cracking, the edges peeling. It’s my diary from several years of my childhood, an image of that 70’s &...

Have you ever heard the saying 'Man plans and God laughs'?   While this is of course not a quote from the Bible, I think that a few of my hare-brained plans over the years h...

For the past two years, I have been getting a word in January that sums up the lesson(s) God has in store for me for the year.  It started in 2015 when I sensed the word “simplif...

The toddler isn’t sleeping through the night right now. You realize how painful this is, don’t you? For months, we’ve been in a rhythm: She goes to bed, I go to bed, and neither of u...

Two of the most beautiful truths of the Christmas story are how light and praise always precede the mention of Jesus, a babe born in a barn and laid - wrapped in swaddling cloths - in a manger. &#...

READ: Matthew 1:18-23, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1-7 Biblical scholars disagree over the age of Mary when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to her to tell her that God had chosen her to bear His son....

Matthew 1:18-21, Luke 1:26-27 Even though, as believers, our very existence relies wholly on the foundation of faith itself, when we’re faced with a challenge or situation that requires...

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they we...

One of my most favorite things about the Bible is the way that prophecies are fulfilled. I have always loved seeing the way that portions of God’s word tie together into each other and foretell ...