Fighting Fair: The Newlyweds’ Guide to Conflict in Marriage
Couples who never fight are as rare as snow in South Texas, so please know you are normal if you’ve just had your first fight. Good News: Every conflict is a chance to make your marriage even better, to learn about each other, and to get another step closer to mutually agreed-upon expectations. Bad News: […]
Can a Marriage Thrive When Only 1 Person Is a Christian?
Feeling like church is an obligation is not an ideal situation in a marriage. Worshiping the One you love without the one you love isn’t what the One you love wants for the one you love. If you don’t totally agree on matters of faith, church, and spiritual practices, you aren’t the first couple, and […]
The ultimate “Sandy” mission: Because God is good
On Friday, April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet was shot down over Iran. Both the pilot and the weapons system officer ejected from the plane and landed in enemy territory. The pilot was rescued within hours, but it would take over forty-eight hours and 150 U.S. aircraft to complete the rescue mission of the second man. The concussed and bleeding officer used his survival and evasion training to treat his own wounds, scale cliff faces, and climb 7,000 feet up a ridge to hide in a crevice for over forty-eight hours while the enemy closed in around him. And the first words he spoke to the base when he made radio contact were these: “God is good.”
Live!
I had coffee with a friend recently who’s coming out of a crazy-hard season in her life. After all she’s been through, she came out of it with one word: Live! Just a few weeks ago, my family finished reading through the Bible book of Ecclesiastes. After examining his life and searching for meaning only […]
Does your faith feel low on power?
When an ice storm hit the South last month, my daughter was without power for over nine days. Thankfully she had a power bank to charge her phone so we could receive updates about water and food heated over candles, blankets hung over doors and windows to keep in the heat, and power lines […]
Make room for lasting friendships
If you’ve seen the movie The Sandlot, you’ll know something about my childhood. I grew up on a dead-end street filled with boys. We spent our summers riding our bikes to the local superette to buy Swedish Fish candies and then to my neighbor’s house for a game of backyard baseball. Friendship came easily in […]
God is with you always
My three-year-old had been having a hard time going to sleep. After years of him smiling beatifically and snuggling into his bed with nary a tear, suddenly my attempts to leave his room after kissing him goodnight were met with crocodile tears and pleas of: “Mama, no, you stay here! Don’t leave! I am scared […]
How to be still
There’s this one verse in the Bible that a lot of people—myself included—seem to know (but don’t really know). It comes from a song written long ago by a group of Israelite worship leaders called the Sons of Korah who wrote music for people to sing to God. The verse says, “Be still, and know […]