Our story, the chapters that compose our lives, finds meaning when we read the Story of the whole Bible. And when we keep our finger on this Great Story, the Lord helps us navigate the messy and disappointing and scary pages of our lives.
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It seems that everyone’s talking about periods these days. Whether it’s in relation to the tampon tax, menstrual health, global development, green issues, or gender identity, menstruation is the subject of a burgeoning range of podcasts, articles, and books. While Christians won’t affirm everything that our culture says about periods, we can affirm this basic instinct: periods matter, because people matter; and menstrual cycles point us to human dignity.
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Love finds its origin in God. He gives love its definition. Without God, love wouldn’t exist.
Check out this devotional from Joshua Cooley’s new book for teens.
Andrew and Rachel Wilson have written a book that I believe will be a Christian classic for parents of special needs children. One profound chapter is Rachel’s “A Note to Friends and Relatives.”
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For those who have settled into the new reality of parenting a child with unique needs and are asking for resources, these are the books I recommend, and I recommend reading them in this order.
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Our family advent tradition, the Jesse Tree, focuses on tracing the storyline of God’s family from Creation to the cross.
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Spader writes about the way Jesus discipled and learns from his method. He spends time looking at each stage of discipleship from non-believer through the multiplier stage, what he calls the “disciple-making disciple.”
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