Aftershock Devotional Series #1: Overarching Principles
In February, we overviewed how to move forward after discovering a spouse’s sexual sin. Maybe that’s your story. Or maybe it’s the journey of a friend or the painful reality for your adult son or daughter, and you want to point them to hope and help. Whatever the situation, we want to give you knowledge […]
Aftershock Devotional Series #1: Overarching Principles
In February, we overviewed how to move forward after discovering a spouse’s sexual sin. Maybe that’s your story. Or maybe it’s the journey of a friend or the painful reality for your adult son or daughter, and you want to point them to hope and help. Whatever the situation, we want to give you knowledge […]
Restoring Relationships with Adult Siblings
My brother, my two sisters and I enjoyed growing up together, watching TV together, playing many board games together, and going to church together. We looked forward to family vacations together, often visiting relatives in other states. Now, I still love all my siblings very much, and my younger sister is one of my closest […]
When Life Feels Like One Long Failure
Feel like a failure? Like you don’t deserve happiness? That even if you could behappy, the rug would be yanked out from under you? You might be wrestling with something therapists call cognitive distortion. Cognitive distortion happens when your mind imagines things that aren’t true — and then uses those inaccurate concepts to reinforce negative […]
But God…
We have seen so many changes in this past year, and it’s hard to wrap our minds around this “new normal.” Simply put, we have our pre-COVID lives and our since COVID lives. We used to be able to gather with our friends and family, unafraid. We used to be able to go out to […]
But God…
We have seen so many changes in this past year, and it’s hard to wrap our minds around this “new normal.” Simply put, we have our pre-COVID lives and our since COVID lives. We used to be able to gather with our friends and family, unafraid. We used to be able to go out to […]
Pause: Making Space for Your Soul in a Jam-Packed Day
Do you feel like you’re busy ALL the time? Our days are often filled to the brim with activity. Work. Chores. Kids. Sports. Volunteering. Friends. Exercise. The list goes on. The demands on our time can seem never-ending. We go from this thing to the next thing to the next thing, ad nauseam. Get a […]
Do You Respect Your Teen?
Parents of teens have a high (and hard) calling: Help them become adults. Depending on the day, we might give in to every whim because we don’t want a battle, or we don’t want them to struggle — or else we demand that they unquestioningly follow every directive. Respect finds the balance. Yes, your child […]
Lament
This past year with the pandemic, being quarantined, and social and political unrest, we often struggle to make sense of daily life. As believers, we read 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which tells us to give thanks in all circumstances. To give thanks in all circumstances invites us to call out to God. There is a tension […]
Lament
This past year with the pandemic, being quarantined, and social and political unrest, we often struggle to make sense of daily life. As believers, we read 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which tells us to give thanks in all circumstances. To give thanks in all circumstances invites us to call out to God. There is a tension […]
