Mean girls seem to be mean 24/7… all day… every day. It’s a fact, ever-so-often, teenage girls will square-off. The result? A mixture of cruelty, bruised egos, and embarrassment. Hurtful words are sent hurling, hitting harder than missiles. Then, like a spark of flame in a forest, a little disagreement ...
Read More »Teens: Set Eternity In Your Hearts
The BMW’s speedometer read 180 kilometers per hour as we raced along the Autobahn. Mentally I tried to configure this to miles, and knew we were going well over a hundred. My German boyfriend had a fondness for going to dealerships and doing “test drives” on sports cars. I’d watch ...
Read More »Challenges To Good Relationships
In my previous article, I touched on the subject of relationships—that we are made to have value in our relationships with each other. We have great value to God, and we can only fulfill our purpose on earth through rich communion with Him. He sent Jesus to make this possible, ...
Read More »Child, I’ll Take Care of the Monster
Dear Jesus, There’s a monster in my room. But it’s not under my bed. It’s neither in my closet nor in my head. He’s very real and very ugly, too. The monster comes out at night, when everyone is asleep. When the house is quite and the lights are off, ...
Read More »Focus on the War and Not Just One Battle
“And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that ...
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