Life Challenges • Parenting Affirming the unique person God designed your child to be Parents should affirm a child’s God-given design, not stereotypes of gender. A boy, for example, may be more interest... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting The ups and downs of being an adopted child I think most people who are adopted go through a season when difficult issues come to a head and need to be dealt with. Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Q&A: Fallout of an affair: Low self-esteem and forgiveness issues Any relational improvements after the fallout of an affair may prove to be superficial if you don’t make an effort to... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: Addressing body image issues when your daughter won't talk Rather than pushing her to share her feelings, we think the best approach would be to focus on spending more one-on-o... Article
Life Challenges • Depression God's comfort for single moms I didn’t plan to get pregnant out of wedlock. Yet there I was, single and the mother of a baby girl. Life seemed to b... Article
Life Challenges • Grief (loss of spouse) Accepting a new identity as a single mom No longer was I the associate pastor’s wife or part of the inner workings of our church. I was a 32-year-old widow, l... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Understanding highly sensitive children Taken together, highly sensitive kids perceive more, ponder more and feel more. And they more quickly reach their lim... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How one single mom turned to God when her daughter turned away I felt cheated out of a future with Lizzy and robbed of my identity. Bitterness and resentment threatened to flood my... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: Safeguarding your daughter from an eating disorder Our adolescent daughter has lost a great deal of weight over the past few months. I’m beginning to worry that she may... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Checklist of traits in highly sensitive children If you suspect your child may be highly sensitive, consult the checklist below of traits described in Aron’s book. No... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting When a dad must raise his little girl alone Raising girls can be complicated – even more so if you’re a father raising a daughter alone. When Tom McMinn lost his... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage The damage caused by a wife's need to control As a devoted wife, I just wanted to help my husband become the man he was meant to be. What’s wrong with that? It’s d... Article
Life Challenges • Trauma When family secrets come out: How to work through your feelings and find a way forward How you choose to process this new information can make all the difference: you want a healed heart, not a bitter one. Article
Life Challenges • Pornography (men) How God's grace saved this man from a pornography addiction As the cycle started to escalate, I recognized that my sense of disconnection was increasing. I noticed that I was ha... Article
Life Challenges • Eating disorders Q&A: Could my eating disorder have a spiritual component? When confronting a challenge like an eating disorder, it can only help to confirm and strengthen your grasp of founda... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Helping your daughter navigate a highly sexualized culture Our culture tries to convince our daughters that they amount to nothing more than the sum of their parts. Our daughte... Article
Life Challenges • Boundaries Why are boundaries a big deal? To help your understanding of boundaries, let’s look at some ways that boundaries may be crossed inappropriately. Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity How do we make sense of gender in today’s culture? With the prevalence of “gender options” in our culture it continues to be a complicated topic among young people. The... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How parental attachment determines a child's emotional health If you were offered a test that could predict how emotionally healthy your child will become, would you take the test... Article
Life Challenges • Anxiety The truth about eating disorders Find help and hope in solid information and in the stories of those who have fought this battle and won. Article