ARTICLES
3 Good Things to Remember about the Importance of Training Your Children to Help
I remember the day I determined to teach my firstborn how to clean her own room, rather than to continue to do the task myself. What would have taken me five to ten minutes to accomplish took closer to forty minutes that day; but it turns out that in the long term, the extra time was worth every second.
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2 Good Things to Remember When You Struggle with Change
I don’t know about you, but I’m not such a big fan of change—especially when it comes to change I don’t have control over. Here are two good things to remember in the midst of all the twists and turns of life.
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A Northwest Church Search
How do Christians decide which church to attend? As we walked through the doors of new churches, struck up conversations, and sat under preaching, we wrestled with the reality that no church is perfect. What should we even be looking for?
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Reviving Hope: How God Helps Those Who Cannot Help Themselves
I will never forget the moment when I came to believe that hope was nothing more than a pipe dream. Hope was fanciful, wishful thinking, and useless. Years later I encountered real hope in God—the promise maker and promise keeper.
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Practicing Humble Hospitality in Word, Deed, and Heart
When we think of hospitality, it is usually in regard to spending time with people at home. We can also learn a lot from businesses, including this Sacramento restaurant, about how to make people feel warm, welcome, and valued.
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When All the Good Guys Are Actually Bad Guys
Does it seem to you, as it does to me, that it has become more common for our public debates to be framed as being between the “good guys” and the “bad guys”? The people on “our side” are perceived as “good,” and the people on the “other side” as “evil.” What does the Bible have to say about how we view each other?
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