You love your children, and you want to express it well. Some days you feel happy with how you connect. Other days, you get caught up in the “everyday-ness” of life. Between work and meals and keeping up with schedules, you’re busy and not as intentional about showing love to your kids as you’d like to be.
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Being a parent can be one of the most rewarding relationships in life. But between taking the kids to school, work, and managing a household, let’s face it: It can be overwhelming. And knowing how to parent in today’s technology-driven world can be terrifying. So, here are some tips on how to parent from a biblical perspective.
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This time of year, there is no shortage of New Year’s resolution ideas. From health and wellness goals to professional and educational aspirations, we have optimistic visions of the year to come.
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In his book Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life, Chuck Swindoll recounted the tragic story of George Jaeger, whose father and three sons drowned after their fishing boat sank during a storm: First one boy and then another swallowed too much salt water, gagged, and strangled on the brine as they fought to keep their heads up. The helpless father heard his sons, one by one, then his dad, choke and ...
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At the start of a new year, we sometimes feel ourselves to be on the brink of a new chapter of our lives. In some sense, crossing over from December 31 to January 1 is arbitrary; many of us begin the new year much as we ended the last. Still, there is something exciting about a blank page—the promise of a fresh chapter, as yet unwritten.
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As we end one year and begin another, it’s a good time to reflect and look back. Maybe there are some things we wish we would have done, or maybe we have regrets about things that we did do.
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In this highlight from his lecture series, The Beatitudes, Bible teacher Steve Gregg discusses appropriate responses for Christians when being persecuted for their faith.
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Chances are you’ve had a cup of coffee today, and the chances are the word “Starbucks” was on the cup. The now famous coffee company began in the Pike Place Market in Seattle in 1971. Since then, Starbucks has experienced the ups and downs of the economy, occasional missteps in corporate management, and the pressures of a rapidly expanding global enterprise.
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Today, loneliness is an epidemic in our culture. How I long for the lonely to know and trust in the one who promised, "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5).
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We saw last time that Paul affirmed the Bible as the only reliable criterion by which believers in this age can evaluate messages claiming to be truth from God. That testing of truth Paul calls for is not merely an academic exercise. It demands an active, twofold response.
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