Raising resilient children in today's world involves a delicate balance of nurturing their emotional and spiritual depths while preparing them for the practical realities they will face. The following may be just what they need for life's inevitable challenges ahead:...
When difficulties come, on what do you focus? Some look back. They are the ones who try to drive looking in the rearview mirror. Their thoughts are consumed with two questions which, like a broken record, play over and over again: “What if?” or “If only?” “What if I...
Life is not without its burdens. At 27, Margaret is already feeling the effects of carrying hers. Every other day Margaret, a mother of four, makes a 10-hour trek to collect water for her family, carrying a jerrycan on her back that weighs 44 pounds when filled....
Everywhere I go, I interact with a lot of people who do not rest. This is especially true of pastors, church leaders, and workers. This principle comes from one of the Ten Commandments, but it is one of the most ignored. We are horrified by adultery, murder, lying,...
Charles Spurgeon called him "The Iron Prophet!" Ahab, the king of Israel, called him "the troubler of Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries called him things even a great deal less complimentary. His name, Elijah, meant "Yahweh is God," or "Jehovah is God," and...
Stress has become ubiquitous, and if not managed well, it will affect our physical and mental well-being. However, recent studies published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine and Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shed light on a simple yet effective...
Troubled by the uncertainty you have in your heart as to whether or not, should you stand in the presence of God, you would be greeted with joy or rejection? Vast numbers of people are there! In fact, some groups actually teach that you can’t be sure that you are...
It's a waste of time but do we ever spend a lot of time doing it. A poet once admitted, "I worried a lot." "Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?” The poem gives us a...
Why did Jesus come into the world? He declares in John 10:10, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” He also tells us, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of...
A physician from Antioch, in all probability not a Jew, whom we know as Dr. Luke, wrote more of the New Testament from the standpoint of volume than did the apostle Paul. However, the thirteen letters that Paul wrote form the backbone of what the church has taught...