In the 2008 movie Marley and Me, one particular scene will resonate with anyone who has sacrificed a part of their life for someone they love. Jenny, a woman who has left a successful career to become a…
No wonder the adjustment into college prompts homesickness. Most of us scrap desperately to belong but, at best, settle to simply fit in.
I am a parent of kids who are soon to be adults. That means the most crucial years of my job as a parent are done. I am also the pastor of a church with a growing number…
We are supposed to escape to the one who made the world, and whose achievements are given to us without us earning, meriting, or leveling up to receive them.
Hindsight is surely 20/20. I wish that I had approached the stress of my kids’ exams with more Gospel and less me. Now that they are grown, I see my mistakes more clearly. The “truth” of a standard…
At The Gospel Coalition Conference in Indianapolis earlier this month, I had the pleasure of meeting Chap Bettis, a former lead pastor who now directs the Apollos Project. The Apollos Project is a ministry devoted to helping parents…
“When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be…” (from “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry) Peace. It’s…
In 2016 Tyndale published what might be the best parent-oriented devotion I have ever seen: Nancy Guthrie’s Praying through the Bible for Your Kids. In his forward, Sinclair Ferguson comments that the book “does not take the low…
“Prom-posal” pictures filled my social media this morning, reminding me that prom season is upon us. If prom-posal is an unfamiliar term to you, I’m referring to the big to-do that comes with popping the question: “Will you…
