There’s probably a mathematical formula for determining how much more expensive our kids get as they get older. I’m no [...]

Prayer is something we can often take it for granted. And for some, even if they grew up in the church, they often wonder, [...]

Get your family reading (and talking about) the Bible with this one-year plan that offers an overview of key events and [...]

  When we make small positive decisions and repeat them day after day, transformation happens in our marriages, our [...]

Confession: I enjoy setting resolutions more than I like keeping them. Some years I get rather elaborate with my schemes. If [...]

Every year I feel the pressure swell sometime around November. I used to be able to stave it off until after Thanksgiving, [...]

You've heard all the cliches before. You've maybe even spoken some of them. “Jesus is the reason for the season.” “Let's keep [...]

I can still remember how fast my heart was racing when Kat walked into the room. I’d known this tall, blonde business woman [...]

I think there are 12 pie crusts on our buffet awaiting the arrival of their first loves this morning.  A bacon-laden turkey [...]

I had to laugh when I stopped by my local Target at 8am on Halloween morning to pick up more candy, and a zealous worker [...]

Can we just have a moment of complete honesty? Being a stepmom is hard. Like really hard. It’s as if I’ve gone [...]

  When God called me to pursue a life in ministry, one of the first things I did was call my uncle, Rob. Rob had been [...]

I didn't want to say it. I'd been down this road so many times, and I knew that it usually stalled at a dead end. But I could [...]

In the beginning, we all did some pretty wild things preparing for our kids to be born. We washed and folded teeny-tiny [...]

Dear parent of a pre-teen or teen—the competition has started. Whether you can recognize it yet or not, you've started to [...]