Someone we love has died, and we grieve. The grief surrounding this type of loss is profound. We grieve because we love. And that love is precious. You can help your child grieve by showing them how you turn to God in sorrow. They will learn how to grieve by watching you. Grief is not something to be rushed. God understands and invites us to tell him about our grief and pain. This type of crying...
My friend Jim Branch told me a story that happened a few years ago in a high school cafeteria. He was there with a few college students and adults who were Young Life leaders at the school. Jim tells it this way: I overheard a commotion a few tables away and looked up to see one of the kids who came regularly to our Young Life club on Thursday nights. She had accidentally dumped her entire tray...
Anyone who has ever gone on a mission trip knows that the experience gives participants a unique opportunity to see and experience God differently than they do at home. While most people who take short-term mission trips describe them as life-changing, the truth is that after they return home, not a lot changes in how they live day-to-day, and the memories start to fade. However, Life-Changing...
Scripture seems to identify the narcissist easily. Here is the prototype of sin. Haughty, lover of self (2 Timothy 3:2), and spiritually dead. End of story. Case closed. The cause of a narcissist’s maddening lifestyle. Confession and God’s forgiveness are the answer. But for a number of reasons, this can’t be the end of what God says. One reason is it doesn’t explain enough. We are all sinners...
We are sharing one more preview in our summer reading series for this year. Marty Machowski’s The Redemption Tales offers a creative presentation of the gospel message by inviting middle-grade readers (ages 8–12) to join the fictional animals who could have been present at the biggest events of the Bible. The third book in the series, The Light and the Life, follows the adventures of the animals...
