Three Ways to Love Your Imperfect Husband
Kim Cash Tate Sometimes it seems we could fulfill our biblical role as wives a lot easier if our husbands would simply do what they are called to do. If they would cultivate a stronger prayer life, we would feel better about following their lead. But our calling doesn’t hinge upon how faithfully our husbands are walking out theirs...
12 Pillars of Faith for Parents of Children with Disabilities
Paul Tautges “What is the number one question an expectant parent is asked? ‘Are you hoping for a boy or a girl?’ And what is the typical response? ‘It doesn’t matter as long as my baby is healthy.’ That seemingly innocent exchange may reveal a foundational belief that resides in the hearts of many of us—that there are few things worse for a parent than having a child who is not healthy."
Parents, You Can’t Build Heaven Here
Stephen Witmer Have you received the annual Christmas letter from The Perfect Family? By the time you finish reading the letter and set it down with trembling hands, your Christmas spirit has evaporated. You have a panicky fear that maybe you haven’t provided enough opportunities for your kids...
Single You Will Be the Married You
Phillip Holmes Joining a gym won’t instantly transform your physique. Starting a blog won’t immediately make you a good writer. Purchasing a piano won’t make you a musician. The same principle is true for marriage. Getting married will not make you a good spouse or a better person...
Spiritual Healing in the Midst of a Husband's Addiction to Pornography
Tim Challies I lamented that while there are many, many books written to help men overcome an addiction to pornography, there is very little written to help the women who have been victims of a husband’s addiction. Shortly after I received an email from Vicki Tiede who has written just such a title...
When Dad Doesn't Disciple the Kids
Jen Wilkin Three kinds of “single moms” exist in the church: the literal single mom who is raising children on her own, the mom whose husband is an unbeliever and the mom whose husband professes belief but does not partner in the spiritual nurturing of the family...
Caring for Your Wife in Miscarriage
Cary Hughes As a young man who has lost a child to miscarriage earlier this year, I vividly remember the difficult journey that my wife and I encountered in the loss of our first child. It is a path we still walk...
Advice for a Young Man Dating a Young Woman
John Harris To all my 20-something friends, I honestly believe that every young man who is truly interested in entering into a marriage covenant with a young woman should embrace the following seven critical pieces of advice...
Your Child Is Your Neighbor
Jen Wilkin If you asked me the single-most important insight that has shaped my parenting, it would be this: Children are people...
Six Traits to Look for in a Spouse
Ben Reaoch If you’re single and desiring to be married, you will find that taking the Bible seriously will prove to be the best dating guide in the long run, rather than the superficial criteria the world urges us to focus on...
Helpers for Unfinished Husbands
Liz Wann Wives need God-given discernment for when to encourage, when to graciously confront, and when to wait and pray...
5 Ways to Talk to Your Children About Death
Jeff Robinson It wasn’t the first thing to enter my mind, but it might have been the second: How am I going to tell the kids? The doctor had just laid out the cold, hard truth: “Your friend, Ken, has passed”...
5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Dating Relationship
Tim Challies
(Article) Somewhere along the way dating became too hard.
Sex is Less Significant than You Think
Tim Chester We look for our personal version of salvation in sex or in romance. To be someone, to be whole, to be worthwhile we’re told we need to have sex or we need to have romance....
What Girls Should Demand
Melissa Edgington Demand that boys respect your body and your soul. Because here is a deep down truth that I want you to understand. When they disrespect your body, they are disrespecting your soul. When they protect your body, your precious, God-breathed, flesh and bone, they are loving your soul...
Teaching Our Children the Raw Parts of Scripture
Nick Batzig One of the things that I realized the first time that I taught through the book of Genesis is that the patriarchal narratives look far more like something that you would see on Showtime than something that you would hear on Focus on the Family...