Faithit

"To say as a parent, 'I’ll let them decide on their own,' sounds so enlightened. But it's the most dangerous thing a parent could say."

Jesus sees you struggling under the weight of your love-bound load and beckons, "Bring me your children's burdens and your own, too. Give me what you're carrying. Find rest for your soul.

"By 2020, depression will be our greatest epidemic worldwide: greater than cancer, heart disease, and AIDS combined. One in four individuals will be diagnosed at some time in their lifetime."

When Christian couples settle for subpar intimacy, they give up a tremendous opportunity to honor God within marriage. Most couples don’t just decide to “not like sex,” but they settle because they are confused about how to take steps toward health and wholeness.

"I want you to lean in closely so that you get the full breadth of what I’m about to tell you."

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

I advocate for vaccines because I’ve held a newborn with fever while the doctor does a lumbar puncture. Because I’ve put a grandfather on a ventilator who couldn’t breathe and because I’ve put the final drape over a mother of 3’s face after she beat breast cancer but died of the flu. I did all of this knowing full well that it was preventable.

You may think that this affects only you, or even your and mom’s relationships. But it has had a profound impact on me and all of my siblings as well.