Rethinking Lent

For most of my life I ignored the Lenten season … until I realized how little time I spent preparing my heart for Easter.

Lent excites me because of its intense Christ-focus and, even more, its focus on the cross.

Making assumptions about your spouse’s thoughts, feelings, and motives is a risky endeavor.

Even if turning your television off completely is an unbearable thought, consider these ideas for replacing a portion of your television-watching time.

Two tips for battling the “illusion of permanence” in your marriage relationship.

It all begins with a foundation of God’s Word.

Three players from this week’s game, and the fathers who influenced them.

When we indicated we wanted to help other people grow in their faith and in their marriage the way we had, we had absolutely no idea of what God had in store for us.

Learning God’s principles for marriage the hard way.

The home may be the place where it’s most difficult to live out our faith—and also the most important.

Ten ideas that can help connect hearts and homes to Him.

Three essentials to sharing the kind of covenant love that Ruth and Naomi had.

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is disciplined speech.

Karis Kimmel Murray describes the “Murray Family Code.” She and her husband developed these rules to emphasize practical and biblical expectations for how family members will live and treat each other.

God’s grace serves as the self-healing mechanism for our inadequate lenses when we fail at love, forgiveness, and grace itself.

You are God’s first responders, called to run in with help when your child is in danger because of burning desire or an attack of temptation.

Christians share a common identity in Christ, which takes precedence over ethnicity and every other difference that tends to divide us.