Are you feeling displaced? That’s often what it feels like to be a Christian in an increasingly post-Christian world. You speak the language and understand the culture, yet don’t quite feel at home. How do you live as a Christian in a world that doesn’t share your convictions? Can you still hold firmly to biblical truth even as you love others? This moment in our culture might seem new to us, but...
I was sitting in my office, talking with a woman whose marriage was a wreck. Her husband was lying. Their daily conversations often spiraled into nuclear war. Her resentment was growing. There was no peace, and she was holding off the possibility of divorce, but you could sense it hovering like a dark cloud. At one point she said to me, “When we were dating, he never initiated spiritual...
A number of years ago, to my wife’s great delight, her father gave her the family heirloom photo albums. We’re not talking snapshots of Disney World held in vinyl pages. These hundred-year-old photos were carefully bound in two deeply embossed gilded leather albums. Even guests who had parted the pages of these regal books had stood in awe of the history represented in the sepia tone portraits of...
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever;and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. Augustine Embracing the idea of self-care can feel uncomfortable. The word isn’t found in Scripture, and some Christians may wonder if self-care is contrary to a sacrificial life. Doesn’t the Bible call us to put the care of others first? Won’t attending to self-care lead...
When life gets busy and some days are hard, it is possible to find Jesus in the small, everyday things all around us. In Finding Jesus on Upside Down Days: Family Devotions from the Barnyard, Jill Miller gives heartwarming, intimate glimpses of her life on the farm. As Miller cares for and enjoys her animals’ antics, God takes her upside-down soul and sets it right-side up. Designed as a 52-week...
