If you ask me what kind of car my brother has, I’d say, “Hmmm…it’s blue.” If you ask my dad, he’d smile with joy and say, “It’s a 1969 Dodge […]
Hospice Home Care: What You Need to Know
Understanding Social Workers
Social workers are often misunderstood. Some people would say they take children; some might describe their role as do-gooders. As a licensed clinical social worker for over thirty years, I […]
What is Abortion Tourism?
Since Roe was overturned, women travel from states banning abortion to where it is legal to get an abortion, known as abortion tourism.
The Pastor’s Essential Library: Friendship with God: A Path to Deeper Fellowship with the Father, Son, and Spirit
What does it mean to be friends with God? Each chapter of this book takes a key insight from John Owen’s Communion with God and clarifies it for modern readers.
How Do I Keep My Anxiety from Affecting My Parenting?
Addressing anxiety in your parenting can be difficult. But there are ways to practically and appropriately manage your anxiety and stress to serve and love your family well.
Maintaining Pastoral Resilience through the Spiritual Disciplines
Amid turmoil, how can a pastor avoid joining the unusually high number of pastors voluntarily leaving the ministry? This final article in our series about personal spiritual disciplines speaks to perseverance in those disciplines to maintain in stressful times. It’s what the Barna Group referred to as “pastoral resilience.”
Motherhood Sorrows and the Pastor’s Family
Even a faithful, experienced pastor can struggle to know what to say or do when suffering touches his family. For the pastor seeking to lead his wife through a difficult season of motherhood with gospel hope and comfort, here are six ways my husband—by God’s grace—has cared for me.
Fostering a Church Culture for Foster Care
Our experience with foster care in our own family and encouraging and advocating for foster care and adoption in our church has taught us a few ways a pastor can help cultivate a heart for foster care in his church.
How To Help Your Spouse Talk To You
Relationships are like a dance. Communication takes effort, but with practice, each of us can be a safe place for our loved one’s tender needs.
What Does It Mean to Have a Biblical View of Work?
For all of us, the fruits of our labor can be used for the good of those around us.