How is your Bible reading going? We should ask each other this question. It helps because it draws out two central foundations for reading your Bible better. First, Bible reading is important, even more important than food. We will wither without hearing the words of God: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by …
Month: May 2019
How 9 Years in South Sudan Prepared Me for Step-Motherhood: Part 3
Moving into the Village When you go through training before serving overseas, you are told many things. Two of the most important are: be flexible and be an observer first. We are told these things because when entering a new system in a new country things are not going to go the way you think …
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How We Can Serve Step-Families
For those of you who may have missed it, I recently had an article go up on the Gospel Coalition Canada site. This one is about some of the unexpected pressures that stepfamilies face and what the church can do to serve these families. Here is an excerpt: "The church would do well to take …
Mother’s Day is Complicated
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Mother’s Day is no longer as simple as it was. When I was young it was nothing more than giving a card to the one woman I knew called mom but much has changed since then. A Complicated Cluster I gained a step-mom in my mid-teens and a mother-in-law in my early twenties. …
The Persistent Glory of God
The anniversary of my first wife's death and my marriage to my second wife fall within a week of each other in June. By no means does my life look like I thought it would. So many things that I assumed and leaned upon have fallen away, but the glory of God has been an …
Too Small A Thing 