Posts in category For the Heart

Christians should parent their children in a gospel-centered manner, even when it comes to schoolwork.

“God does not want us to be spiritual mushrooms,” wrote J. O. Fraser in 1918 from the Yunnan province of China.[1] Fraser spoke from experience—in …

How God can use our response to pandemic disruptions

When doubts or questions arise, parents should take advantage of these teachable moments by unpacking the hope-giving truths of the gospel. Even if the child is genuinely a believer, it certainly won’t hurt them to hear the promises of the gospel afresh.

God is not using us to His benefit and our hurt: He is inviting us into a relationship that will result in mutual joy!

For all of our married life, my wife, Paula, and I have been in ministry of one sort or another. Everything changed for us as …

A recent conversation caught me breathless and deeply burdened for my neighbors. A street vendor I regularly buy vegetables from surveyed all of the uncertainties …

At the outset of the present quarantine, everything was bizarre, electric, and controversial. People filled their time arguing over lethality, R₀ rates, and balancing lives …

“These are the times that try men’s souls…” the well-known words of poet Thomas Payne came to mind as I drove to the grocery store …

You’re a pastor and church is now cancelled for the foreseeable future. The US Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin just went on record that we should …