When faced with brokenness in families it is tempting to confuse obedience to God’s precepts with obligating God by obedience to his precepts. Richard Pratt writes about brokenness in families, which will be present everywhere because families are made up of imperfect people: An excerpt: In recent decades, Christian television has spread what many call …
If you haven’t seen this anywhere else, watch it now. If you have seen it, watch it again. From the FOX 10 Phoenix Youtube page where this is posted: A former Dallas police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing an unarmed man in his apartment, which she said she mistook …
David Zahl on grace in marriage from his book Seculosity. Real love is not something we decide on. Nor is it something we earn. Love is more than something we fall into; it is something we fail into. What sounds like a somewhat more tragic view of life is actually a starting point for compassion, …
Sammy Rhodes’ book This Is Awkward evokes a lot of familiar emotions as he writes about his own experiences with his father, and the impact those experiences have on his life and relationships with his own children. Our first gifts to our children are the characteristics they’ve either inherited or learned from us. And sometimes …
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