Reasons you should care about Child Sexual Abuse: The most likely candidates to abuse your children are people you wouldn’t expect. People like relatives, babysitters, etc who have developed trust relationships with them. Abduction is not something that happens to other people. It happens to people who don’t think it will happen to them and […]
Great Article in LSJ on Covenant Eyes Purity Software
The Lansing State Journal recently interviewed me for an article they were writing about the Owosso, MI based company Covenant Eyes. I was glad to help with the story and am encouraged that our newspaper would help shed some light on the dark and addictive sin of porngraphy that secretly stifles so many Christians and […]
Peace in the Storm
My friend Rodney McNary wrote this–I hope it’s helpful and gives you peace as you go through life’s storms: Shortsighted and unwise, people call men “happy” when life goes well with them, when they are prosperous, cheerful, or loved by relations and friends, and the sun is shining. People with these kinds of circumstances, however, […]
What to do with Jeremiah 29:11 and the rest of the Old Testament
My post yesterday about how Jeremiah 29:11 is not a promise to us and needs to understood within its original context raised some good questions relating to the Old Testament and how we are to navigate which promises in the Bible are for us, and what to do with the ones that aren’t. I went […]
Correcting Jeremiah 29:11, Does God really have plans to prosper you?
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. You’ll find Jeremiah 29:11 in many places. I once wore it on a bracelet as a teenager. It was on a poster on our […]
Good Friday. Thank you, Jesus.
“The Nails In Your Hands” The nails in Your hands The nails in Your feet tell me how much You love me. The thorns on Your brow They tell me how You bore so much shame to love me. And when the Heavens pass away All Your scars will still remain And forever they will […]