church life

3 min read 2022-05-02 11:00:00

How Churches Can Help Families After a Crisis

After my daughter’s final dose of chemotherapy, we threw a party. Our backyard was full of friends and family eating cupcakes and grinning from ear

3 min read 2022-04-19 11:03:00

Take a moment to think of one creative person in your life. Flip the pages of your mind’s photo album where you hold pictures of your family, your

4 min read 2022-03-09 19:05:09

All the discussion about Brad Wilcox’s awful talk recently led me to thinking, because he was addressing teens, about some of the teachers and

4 min read 2022-03-06 12:00:00

What pictures do the words “women’s ministry” bring to mind? We come from different contexts, all of us. Some will picture a small circle of

5 min read 2022-02-25 06:05:43

If you happen to visit Berlin it would be well worth looking out for the Chapel of Reconciliation on Bernaeur Strasse, in the Mitte district. The

2 min read 2021-12-30 03:00:02

On December 22nd, 24-year-old Asher Wilkins disclosed to his parents, Jefferson & Cathy Green Wilkins, that he was molested as a child, and

1 min read 2021-11-24 18:30:04

Considering the name of tomorrow’s holiday includes the word “giving,” it is only fitting that we spend the vast majority of our time in this

1 min read 2021-11-22 18:30:45

The following material may be familiar to some who read it. It is from The Hiding Place, a book written by Corrie Ten Boom. She wrote about some

1 min read 2021-11-18 18:30:55

For about a month now I have been getting rid of things we don’t need or use. I’ve been cleaning out closets, cabinets, and the garage. The

1 min read 2021-11-17 21:41:37

Last week, The Gospel Coalition published a piece by Joshua Ryan Butler on the reasons people deconstruct their faith. In it, Butler claimed that

1 min read 2021-11-17 18:30:45

Recently, we stayed in a hotel with a little glitch on the TV. The picture was crisp and the screen was quite large. The sound was good and clear.

1 min read 2021-11-15 18:30:44

Pedestals are used for a variety of reasons. We might be talking about the part of a vase that lifts the contents of the vase a little higher than

1 min read 2021-11-09 21:26:08

There is an episode of the hit TV show New Girl in which the main character, Jess, decides to embrace her newfound singleness by starting a Singles

1 min read 2021-11-04 17:30:00

In Acts 3, Peter and John are on their way to the temple at the hour of prayer. They come into contact with a man who has been lame since birth and

1 min read 2021-11-03 17:30:00

Often, I write (or at least jot down the main ideas for) my posts a few days–or sometimes weeks–in advance. But there are times when that