The first time you talk with your child about puberty probably won’t go exactly as you imagined. You may begin with a calm, thoughtful sentence and then hear yourself using phrases you are fairly certain no one has ever said aloud before. Your child may stare at the floor, answer every question with, “I don’t know,” or sit in a silence that makes thirty seconds feel like twelve minutes. You may...
Have you noticed that trying to managing time well in our modern world often resembles a disorienting trip through the twilight time zone? If you’re like us, you want to wisely invest your life and time in your work and your relationships. But, at the same time, you feel the sting of real life struggles in real time. When something falls through the cracks, you miss an important assignment, or...
No parent starts off trying to mess up and get it wrong. We typically enter parenthood with anticipation and deep joy as that baby is wheeled into the room next to us, wrapped up in that hospital baby blanket we’ve seen a thousand times but never felt was all that special until that one moment. Then, that baby grows and grows and grows. Eventually, we find out that baby will talk and think and...
Why should God answer your prayers? In his sermon “Order and Argument in Prayer,” Spurgeon gives four appeals, or “arguments,” that we can bring to God in prayer. As Christians, we certainly don’t believe our arguments can change God’s mind or tell him something he doesn’t know. At the same time, Scripture shows us how God’s people can make their requests by appealing to what we know about God...
Maybe you can remember the day that you found out who your new college roommate was going to be. In my case, because I went to college before the days of email, I got the news in a letter from the college that included a form that my roommate had filled out answering some questions about what they liked and didn’t like. As I hurriedly scanned through the list of answers, I found out that my...
