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Foster Care and the Christian Family
Read more: Foster Care and the Christian FamilySince my husband and I were dating we talked about adoption and our desire to welcome a child that needs a family into our own. It was clear for us that if we have the benefit of a stable living situation, the support of our church family, and enough spiritual and financial resources, then we…
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Infertility and The Sovereignty of God Through the Bible
Read more: Infertility and The Sovereignty of God Through the BiblePsalm 139 displays God’s attributes of omniscience and omnipresence. It reminds us that God not only knows us in the most intimate way, but there is nowhere we can go that He’s not already there (Ps 139:1-12). It also reminds us that He is the creator of life, the writer of our days, and our…
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Gods Good Design for Women
Read more: Gods Good Design for WomenFeminism, according to google, at its core, desires to have equal outcomes of the sexes in the social, economic and political realms. As feminism has progressed and changed into something that desires to make men and women completely interchangeable; it has attempted to destroy Gods good design for men and women. The normal gender roles…
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Life in 4D: Four Categories to Help Trace Spiritual Growth
Read more: Life in 4D: Four Categories to Help Trace Spiritual GrowthAs we prepare to switch out our calendars, we can’t help but think back to where we were 365 days ago. How does the person in those pictures compare to the person in the mirror? Surely we have changed, right? Physical change is rather easy to see (sometimes easier than we would like!), but how…
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A Strong Savior
Read more: A Strong SaviorIn this article I would like to examine the common phrase, “God will never give you more than you can handle.” I often hear people say this in response to someone losing a loved one or getting a bad health diagnosis. I never seem to understand why people think that this kind of phrase would…
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Christmas Q&A
Read more: Christmas Q&AQ: Why do we celebrate Christmas? A: Jesus’ Birth is celebrated. The famous passage in Luke 2:11 gives us the picture of what we celebrate: “11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” – Luke 2:11 Christmas should cause us to leap for…
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A Christmas to Love: (Or Insert Favorite Hallmark Movie Title)
Read more: A Christmas to Love: (Or Insert Favorite Hallmark Movie Title)We all remember Christmas mornings. Coffee is brewing and gifts are wrapped and under the tree. Then, gifts are opened and smiles abound. Prayers are said and delicious meals are eaten. These are the memories that remain in our minds and in our photo albums. These happy images adorn Christmas cards, carry the melody of…
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Christmas: A Time to Praise Mary or God? (Luke 1:28-42)
Read more: Christmas: A Time to Praise Mary or God? (Luke 1:28-42)Tis the season for praise and worship. As I was looking into the praises we sing at Christmas time, I was shocked to find a whole collection of praises to Mary called the Marian prayers. After 1050 AD, parts of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) took Luke 1:28-42 to justify the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer, which…
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Thanksgiving: A Lesson from Our Grandparents
Read more: Thanksgiving: A Lesson from Our GrandparentsI love grandparents. They are full of wisdom and weird stories of a time when life– for better or worse– was different. We could certainly learn a lot from them about how they were thankful in hard times, but that’s not what I have in view here. Rather, it is how our grandparents always, without…
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Counterfeit Contentment: How to Go from Resignation to Satisfaction in Trials
Read more: Counterfeit Contentment: How to Go from Resignation to Satisfaction in TrialsAs turkeys descend upon our supermarkets and we prepare to descend upon our in-laws, we remember that we are to think of all we are thankful for. And we remind ourselves that we are to give thanks for all things, the good and the bad. But how often does the conduct of our lives match…
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT 