I had a conversation with a friend recently about her little boys. One of them is in the stage where he has imaginary friends; at present, he has three of them, with nonsensical names she doesn’t understand. Mom is doing a great job respecting the stage he’s in. She allows this kind of creative play…
Throughout the story, Dickens subtly weaves in allusions to the Bible’s rich young ruler, who was unwilling to give up all he had to follow Jesus.Â
Parents of young children can often scold themselves for getting distracted over things like these: little side trips into things that interest them for one reason or another.
If you’re a Christian, you have to believe that Beauty will win. Life will triumph over death. Beauty will overcome the ugliness of the world just as Jesus’s blood has removed the stains of sin in your heart.
Permission to let a plant or two die. At least the humans are surviving.
Just as the cold is inevitable, so too is the warmth. It just takes time to collect.
Regardless of how you’re reading the news every week, there are times when it can seem overwhelming and loud. Life feels heavier than ever before.
This wonderful middle-grade biography spans Lilias’s entire life, revealing all the providential moments that lead her to the decision to leave home, security, and success behind and become a missionary in Africa.Â
When this secular tune about the written word was matched to this sacred poem about Word Made Flesh, the world was given a gift: a doctrinally weighty, yet joyfully light, celebration of Immanuel, God Come Near.
he reminds us that the centerpiece of God’s creative imagination is Bethlehem, “…site of the Incarnation, flash point of the joining of heaven and earth, invisible and visible reality, transcendent and material.”
Scrooge’s lesson somehow became my own, and with him I set my heart to stop my covetous existence, grappling for the lost currency of my home culture, so that I might exchange it for a much more valuable life of living with and for my fellow man.
Where is the promised goodwill and peace? It seems to have disappeared.
