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The Home: Inward and Outward

What characteristics mark your home life? Do the rhythms of family life reflect a healthy and biblical understanding of your immediate family, the church, and the world? In a recent...

Diamonds, or Rock Candy?

A while back, our family visited the National Gem Collection in Washington, D.C. It contains an amazing display of some of the world’s most beautiful gems—diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and...

Don’t Miss Out on the Blessings

Years ago, a woman extended her sympathy to me because I couldn’t participate in adult Sunday school classes. Why “couldn’t” I participate? Because I was teaching first-grade Sunday school instead....

Profound, Yet Simple

Teachers, here is encouragement from R. C. Sproul to really know and understand the biblical concepts you are teaching your students: Certain assumptions are made in the classroom. The first...

On Not Shrinking, but Upholding, Embracing and ...

Paul’s declaration in Acts 20:27, “. . . for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God,” are richly inspiring, yet deeply sobering words.  Why...

When Life is Hard God is…  

It has been a difficult week for my extended family. Hard news from doctors. Difficult decisions. Pain and suffering. Tears and heartbreak. But there is something more. Underneath the life-shaking...