New year, new tunes! This month’s playlist is for cozy days spent reading by the fire, getting to work on your resolutions, and everything in between.
Scripture is full of imperfect, fearful warriors and champions—men and women who didn’t quite fit in or immediately stand out.
“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking.
How can you increase the amount of fruits and vegetables that your family eats every day? Consider these practical suggestions:
1. Try to eat a variety of colors every day.
I get more than a little crazy when I hear the word sale! The moment I think I’m getting a great deal, I lose all common sense — I’ll buy just about anything marked 50 percent off.
If you search the blogosphere, you will find endless lists of things that you “have” to do to be the “perfect” mother: breastfeed, make your own baby food, use cloth diapers, have family dinner every night, eat p
Perhaps this has happened to you. After a worship service, someone asks to have a few words with you. When you sit down together, those “few words” turn out to be powerful and troubling.
1. Prayer Doesn’t Always “Work”
If God is like Santa Claus, and prayer is a way of asking for things, then you’re going to experience a roller-coaster ride of emotions as your expectations are met and missed.
Last spring, a hollow root, twenty yards from the maple tree it once supplied with nutrients, caught fire from the small brush pile burning in our front yard.
When I was 20 years old, my life was destroyed in a single night. Does that sound overly dramatic? After all, I didn’t actually die, or I wouldn’t be writing this article.
