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A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: Three Years Later: What I Miss Most “Today, though, I sure do miss him. I miss having someone who loved me in that unique way a son loves his father, and I miss having someone to love in that unique way a father loves a…
A collection of links from around the web to encourage your growth in grace: Finding Beauty in the Local Church in Our Age of Social Media “Social media provides a way to connect with others, laugh at funny memes, and keep up with our favorite sports teams, but it also tempts us toward comparison and…
A collection of links from around the web to encourage your growth in grace: Love Your Church Anyway “I know that if I continue to connect with people at my church, there’s a chance I’ll eventually be misunderstood, betrayed, and rejected by some, but it’s worth the risk for the chance that I’ll be understood,…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: Let God Prove Himself “Why give money to the church when you aren’t certain you’ll be able to afford next year’s tuition or put down first-and-last on an apartment? How does it make sense to give money away when you have so little and need…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: Fathers, Do You Provoke Your Children? “How can we walk by the Spirit and bear spiritual fruit unless we are spending time in daily communion? Fathers, the grace of God is flowing like a cool, crisp spring stream, and we need to continually wade in…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: Last School Drop Off, Last Drive-to-School Prayer “I prayed my usual drive-to-school prayer for her. It’s a prayer my girls have heard each time I’ve had the privilege of dropping them off in the morning—the car growing increasingly quiet with each passing year. I’ve been…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: Why I No Longer Use Transgender Pronouns–and Why You Shouldn’t Either “Christians who use the moral lens of LGBTQ+ personhood are not merely a “soft presence” in the enemy camp. Their malleability makes them pudding in the enemy’s hand. They make false converts to a…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: How to Ruin A Perfectly Good Friendship “To do any of that would make a friendship burdensome instead of free. Such intense evaluation and introspection would rob the friendship of warmth and life and instead leave it bound by rules and regret. In fact, it…
A collection of links to encourage you today! On Letting Your Kids Go “I would encourage parents to deliberately begin loosening their oversight well before their children leave. We do not serve our children well when we maintain rigid control over them while they are in the home but then simply release them when they…
Thank you to each and every reader! I pray the blog is a blessing and an encouragement to your growth in the grace of our Lord and that would continue into 2023! Here is a list of the most viewed posts from 2022: 7. Who Were the Calvinistic Methodists? 6. What Does it Mean to…