Hello, I’m the voice of wisdom. I’ve been around for a long time, and I know how things work here in the world. If you listen, I’ll point you in the right direction. Every step of the way, I’ll tell you to focus on you...

When my kids were little, I wasn’t the mom who insisted on bike helmets and sunscreen. I fed my kids plenty of junk food and let them loose on our trampoline, which had no net. While I didn’t obsess over their health and safety...

Conflict is like a spidery crack through the unity of the Church. Left unchecked, conflicts can fracture relationships that took years to build, and they can split close-knit groups of Christians into 'sides.

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Once after my friend, Angela, visited, my husband asked why I was so grumpy. 'You usually love having Angela come,' he said. But I replied, 'Yeah . . . I don’t think I like Angela anymore.' My husband was puzzled...

There’s something I do that always compounds my weariness in this race of life: I glance sideways at the person in the land beside me who doesn’t seem to have as much to bear.

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A young woman once asked me, “If I surrender my marriage to God, will He keep my husband from having another affair?

Great. My son stomped his foot on the car's floorboard for emphasis. "I get to go to my sister's game instead of the birthday party. It was true. It had started with me wanting him to clean his room and him wanting to get to...

Jane loves serving on her church’s worship team, but lately she has become frustrated. Her new pastor seems to unravel all of their efforts to cultivate a worshipful tone by spending the first half of his sermon telling silly...

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