...If you are a pastor thinking through this issue for the first time or a church planter starting a new children’s ministry, my hope is to provide some direction and stimulate further thought.

...As it turns out, most of what we worry about doesn’t even happen or is rectified, and those things we can’t change we shouldn’t worry about anyway.

...Digital narcissism—this constant, bent-over focus on our own reflections—cannot define our identity in a satisfying way, and there are many reasons why.

...It is possible for all of us to confuse the visible and the appearance with the reality. That’s why we ever need to pray that God would search us and know us.

We’re in a war. It’s a spiritual war, and the attack is on the institutions God ordained: marriage and the family. But it’s even more insidious than that.

...Since the return to normal church after the pandemic, I have noticed an intense sense of the spiritual battle around us and in which we are engaged daily. It has been a hard year for many of us.

...Christian history is littered with those who would try to generate energy for Christian obedience only to find themselves exhausted and enslaved to a relentless master.

...I was recently asked what believers can do to remain humble when they engage non-believers. Is there a solution that will help believers evangelize with humility?

Satan would love us to wait before we trust in Christ, but today
is the only day of salvation because tomorrow may never come.

...We are told clearly in several passages that we are not to be anxious. But is it a sin?

...An angry person needs to stop and fill his mind with biblical truth so that he can overcome anger in his heart and become a person of grace.

One of these years you are going to experience your final Christmas. It is inevitable.

At the perfect time in history, God sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to be born of a virgin to save us from our sins.  But not everything we say about this crucial moment in history is true.

God patiently waited through the years, until once again in a barren and chaotic wilderness near Mount Sinai, he ordered something new. In a land that was decidedly “un-Eden,” the Lord created a new family.

 A Bible outline based on Luke 2:11.