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The Paradox of Parenting And How to Trust God With Your Children

Saturday night, we got a phone call no parent wants to receive. Our daughter had just left our house to return to her college apartment. When we said...

Make Your Spiritual New Year’s Resolutions Stick

Each January, we feel the allure of a fresh start. It’s the same feeling I used to get with an unopened box of Crayolas. So many possibilities were...

How to Write About Your Faith

Based on a true story, the movie Freedom Writers is an inspirational story of a dedicated teacher, Erin Gruell, who taught English to inner-city kids during the L.A....

How to Overcome Frustration in Writing

Does writing frustrate you? Do you rewrite your blog post over and over, only to find at the end that it's just 'ok'? Maybe this is what God...

How to Overcome the Fear of Writing

Writing and tattoos have a lot in common. Both are art forms that bare something of our souls. We write, or we stamp, and we put it out...

Hudson Taylor’s Secret to Success was in “The Exchanged Life”

“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in...

How Disrupted Plans Reveal the Care & Love of God

This article was originally posted on The Joyful Life Blog. Next week is our 2-year anniversary of living in Arizona. It seemed like an opportune time to recount...

What Jesus & Abraham Lincoln Teach Us About True Freedom

The freedoms we've always treasured in America seem less certain than ever before. But Jesus died to secure our freedom from sin and slavery for eternity. Celebrate the...

In Praise of the Ordinary Fathers Making an Extraordinary Difference

Dads don't get enough credit for the job they do. Perfect candidates need not apply. It's the imperfect and ordinary, God delights in using.

What I’ve Learned About the Seasons of Motherhood

I was driving west on Paseo del Norte, across the Rio Grande River when it happened. It was fall, and the Cottonwoods had just begun to turn. The...
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