Each Child is Unique

There’s a proverb in the Bible that goes like this, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Now, most of us think that means teaching our children to have faith in God and to be “good kids” so...

The Mystery of Marriage

This week’s Feature Article by Leith Anderson Part 3 from the series, “Bible Mysteries” Ephesians 5:31-32 We are launching a new series of Leith’s extended articles to be posted each weekend.  This is the third of four installments in...

Parents as Travel Agents

A great temptation of parenthood is imposing your desires and inclinations on your child. You love music so you want your daughter to be a musician. You’re a carpenter so you want your son to be a carpenter. Instead of forcing our desires on our children; I...

Lessons from Crooked Trees

There used to be some very crooked Russian olive trees in our back yard. The annoying thing about them was that their trunks grew more sideways than upward. Some were so low to the ground that I could hardly mow under them. I tried trimming them, but that didn’t...

The Disciplines of Life

If you polish a piece of wood or a precious stone, you are actually putting a lot of scratches on parallel lines, until eventually those scratches form a brilliant reflective pattern. That is similar to what God is doing when he disciplines us. The Bible explains it...