“Do you want to take a look?” the ultrasound tech asked me. I barely glanced in the direction of the screen and then turned my face away. Seeing my preborn baby wriggling around in my womb might have provoked a desire to choose life instead of going through with an abortion. My heart was desperately hurting and my mind was made up. Grief from the tragedy of losing my one-year-old daughter at the...
When my oldest child was a high school senior, I did not realize how closed off she had become toward me. Yes, I knew I drove her crazy with all my reminders of things she needed to take care of. Even I felt like a broken record at times. But when I walked by her room and saw her laying around watching Netflix and on her phone with her friends, and I knew how much she had to do, my reminders...
In this episode of Straight to the Heart, our host Rush Witt, talks with Camille Cates, a biblical counselor, speaker, and author who works with post-abortive women. Camille shares her story of hardship and suffering as a young woman, including her own history with abortion. From experience, she reaches out to those who are desperately seeking hope and healing from their own personal tragedies...
Paul’s message to the church in Galatia serves as a gospel compass for navigating life with the cross of the risen and reigning Jesus as our focus and guide. There are times as modern-day Christians that we too need to step back to recalibrate and restore our own understanding of the gospel. In his Bible study, Galatians: Navigating Life in View of the Cross, McKay Caston guides participants in...
My thirty-three-year-old son recently said to me, “Dad, a tsunami is coming and none of us is ready for it.” He was referring to the massive numbers of people growing old and living longer worldwide and the deer-in-the-headlights feeling he and his friends are experiencing as they see their parents age. “Here’s where the problem is,” he said. “My generation and younger have grown up being told...
