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Growing Up in Pornland: How Porn-Addicted Boys Are “Sexual Bullying” Our Teen Daughters

Young girls are speaking out more and more about how these practices have links with pornography—because it’s directly affecting them.

10 Things We Can Learn from Candace Cameron Bure About How to Be a Better Christian

For more than three decades, Candace Cameron Bure has...

10 Revealing Facts About How Often Couples Fight—and What’s Actually Normal

Learn how often couples fight and what's considered normal. Explore 10 revealing facts about relationship conflicts and tips for handling arguments in healthy ways.

Brie Gowen

Brie Gowen is a 30-something (sliding ever closer to 40-something) wife and mother. When she’s not loving on her hubby, chasing after the toddler or playing princess with her four-year-old, she enjoys cooking, reading and writing down her thoughts to share with others. Brie is also a huge lover of Jesus. She finds immense joy in the peace a relationship with her Savior provides, and she might just tell you about it sometime. She’d love for you to check out her blog at BrieGowen.com.

Here Comes the Sun: The Thing About Praying Specific Prayers…

So as the girls expressed the same desire as me for sunshine, I called them over to pray about it with me. As we looked out the window at the gray sky and down at my phone at an even gloomier forecast we prayed...

Why God Allows My Anxiety & Depression

As I prayed for an answer I felt one come: "This is how I am answering your prayers."

Satan Invented the “Perfect Christian.” Here’s What a Real One Looks Like…

"I don’t always have a smile. I have regret. I make poor decisions. I try, but I don’t always succeed. Go figure. But I love Jesus."

What God Would Say to the Broken Woman

"You’re not the imperfect features, unwanted weight gained, or knobby knees. You’re not the split ends, wrinkles, or even the chin hairs. You are beautiful in His sight. You’re the heart He put inside you. The creation He lovingly stitched within your mother’s womb."

Saving Yourself For Marriage, Even After You’re Married

"A lot of people hear the saying 'saving yourself for marriage' and immediately think of abstinence, but that’s not what I’m talking about today. In fact, I’m talking about having sex. Lots of sex. So be warned. If you don’t like to speak about apparently taboo subjects like sex then you’ll want to stop reading right now."

To the Mom Who Worries WAY Too Much About Her Kid

"Did I do something to make her this way? Did someone else hurt her?! Was something wrong with my kid?!!"

You’re Not the Man I Dreamed of Marrying

I figured he’d have a degree, a sports car, and no problem handing me the keys to a big house with a white picket fence. I didn’t realize that at forty years old I’d look at the man beside me and see a pick-up driving, vagabond, high-school graduate.

Do You See Giants?

"I felt the question impressed upon my spirit, and I knew it was always easy to focus on the giants (or the hardships, problems, and obstacles). But I also knew that when you focused on the giants you forgot about the promise."