Now I wonder if I had any idea of what I was promising. I was a starry-eyed 21-year-old gazing into the mesmerizingly blue eyes of my beautiful 19-year-old bride. We were young. We were in love. After several years of being high school and college sweethearts, we were convinced that we were ready to get married. And on that warm first day of summer long ago, standing before 200 of our friends and...
Summer will be here in the blink of an eye, and we have a reading suggestion for your kids. 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 second book in the series, The Prophecy and the Hope, follows the...
“God has given me three sons, all living,only the youngest lives with God.”~ Oliver Heywood “How many children do you have?” is a question I am often asked. No matter how many times I have heard it, it can still raise my heart rate and make me flustered. Sometimes I still hesitate. Should I just say, “three,” since that is how many I have on earth? What if they ask their ages? Then I will have to...
We live in a world filled with anxiety, turmoil, and constant change. We may be tempted to think that feelings of instability and insecurity are mostly modern problems, but they have plagued the human heart from the beginning. They were challenges of the church in Colossae. Through You Are Secure: Devotions for When Life Is Uncertain, an eight-week devotional centered on the book of Colossians...
A few months ago, a well-known and deeply respected pastor, author, and teacher posted a heartbreaking confession on his social media: “It is with a shattered heart that I write this letter. I have sinned grievously against the Lord, against my wife, my family, and against countless numbers of you by having a sinful relationship with a woman not my wife.” “I am deeply broken that I have betrayed...
