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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…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace: Social Anxiety and the God Who Held Mary “How are we supposed to make sense of these instances when our prayers go unanswered and no life ring is tossed to us in our greatest need?” Why Young People Should Read “Our God is a God…
A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace. What Should Christians Think of Same-Sex Marriage? “By recognizing same-sex unions as marriage, just like the husband-wife relationship we’ve always called marriage, the state is engaging in (or at least codifying) a massive reengineering of our social life. It assumes the indistinguishability of gender in…