When Your Heart Stops Feeling
Even as our hands grow callous from repeated pressure and friction, our hearts can also grow hard. The trouble is that a hardened heart stops feeling, and without our feelings we cannot grow into true maturity. We can continue to modify our behaviours, but we won't walk in wholeness and we won't be able to sustain the destiny we dream of. This hard-heartedness is becoming an epidemic in the world around us and most succumb to it for the sake of survival through this life.
How to Talk with Your Kids about Sex
This is not about one big talk. This is about countless small talks that culminate to prepare our children with understanding. You may have wished someone did this for you when you were young, but we can’t go back in time. All we can do is shape tomorrow.
Bedrooms of the Nations
What happens in the bedrooms of the nation has a profound affect on the souls of everyone alive. We are deceiving ourselves if we think otherwise. Are we willing to look in the eyes of young people who lived in the blow-out of what unrestrained sexual expression did to them? To their parents, friends and families?
To Make Pain Count
When one person breaks through and finds healing, it releases a contagion of hope.
God knows how to transform even the cruelest of scenarios into a place of redemption and restored life. Not just for you, but for multitudes more. And suddenly, all that pain counts for something.
When The Pain Hits Home
That summer changed my life; it changed my outlook and sent me on a journey. Years passed. I searched for answers. I didn't just want logic to break the confusion in my head. I needed to know that we were not all destined to be slaves of our sexual desires.
Dear Church: On the Topic of Abortion - It's Not So Simple.
We can’t go after the issue of abortion and not be willing to confront the engine that is spinning the gears on the whole conveyor belt. If we’re going to actually help women, we have to go way further back and way deeper down.
And what you find there, Church, is going to inconvenience you far more than you may realize. If we actually care about human dignity and see value in all life, we’re going to have to prove it.
Secrets to Finding a Mentor
Most people wrestle between two urges - the urge to be a mature, strong-minded individuals and the urge to be connected, protected and invested in.
Maybe we can be both.
Maybe we can grow to be individualized, yet still connected, like the cells in your body. True to self, yet committed to and reliant on others.