Currently I'm reading Aimee Byrd's latest book, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God, and I was hooked after just the first few pages. Not only is it written to women, but also to pastors as they seek to diligently shepherd the women within their congregations. In the book, Byrd points out that …
Month: December 2017
Hungry for The Word?
Do you read your Bible because you believe God will bless you for reading it? Do you have the mindset that if you read your Bible every day then your life will be easy-going and that problems will never come your way? At the outset, I don’t want to discount the value of being in …
Parenting: The Heart of the Matter
I often jokingly say that before I became a parent, I was the "perfect parent." Can anyone relate? At times I would criticize others and the way they parented their children, believing that I would have handled unpleasant situations rightly and that my child would never [insert random act of disobedience here]. Sadly, I assumed that snotty-nosed …
The World and the Christian: Made for Each Other?
What is the proper posture for a Christian to take towards the world? Should Christians retreat from the world and live in isolation? Should we look down upon the world in criticism and condemnation? Should we just go “all in” and look no different from the world at all? Or is there some other way? …
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