Posts in category For the Heart

Our frustration and anger toward opposition can easily cause us to become preoccupied with political solutions and distract us from gospel solutions.

Bathe the children. Cook three square meals. Weed the garden. Repair the fence. Beat back the vines of the encroaching jungle. Unclog the outhouse. Patch …

“I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content” – Phil.4:11 If you could use one word to describe people today, what would it …

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 …