My parents live in a small town in the Karroo, and if you’ve ever met them you will know what pretty much all the people in that town knows: My parents are awesome. And certainly, I’d always assumed that small town life has certain, albeit clichéd, characteristics that we always think would not be part …
What if we’ve been getting it wrong all along? I spent most of my professional career living in constant anxiety, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Performance reviews filled me with fear that “this time they were finally gonna realize, I don’t even belong here!” I lived in constant dread that the gig was …
If you are a Christian parent looking to equip your child biblically around the LGBTQ issue, here is help. Want to know how we can equip them with both truth and love, want to know what the Bible really says about this? Want to help your kids (and maybe even yourself!) know how to respond and how NOT to respond? This blog will help you do that!
Even though deep down we know, or hope that spending time in God’s word is one of the most fascinating, nourishing and impactful things we can do, we often struggle to do it with any real consistency, or even passion. Here’s why, and what we can do to change that.
Are you a Gr 1 mom? These 10 things will help you through that first year of big school!
Choosing a word for 2021 can provide the inspiration we need to live a life of faith, can serve as a daily reminder of God’s truth, and can become a prophetic marker to light our path through the decisions and challenges of a new year. Here are 5 questions you can ask to help you choose a word for the year.
Friendship breakups are hard, and they can often leave us many unresolved feelings of hurt, guilt and shame. Here are a few do’s and don’t to navigate the reality of friendship breakups with grace and peace.
The undercurrent of anxiety that is now part of our homes affects all of us in different ways, even our kids. Their stress might not look like ours does, like too much coffee and too little sleep, or too many hours escaping in Netflix, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Kids become unmotivated, discouraged and younger kids even regress due to stress. Have you seen any of that happen at home?Here are some helpful focus points in shepherding our kids through this season.
What word would you use to describe your faith in this season? In our online prayer meeting at church a few weeks ago (yes, cause that’s a thing now), a live poll indicated that more than 70% of people felt that their faith had grown during lockdown! Yay for them, but if I am honest …
Teaching kids about prayer in times of uncertainty In this year we have faced trauma at school, family members threatened by a dire drought, and now, Covid 19, it’s effects reaching into every corner of everything we do, have, own, trust in. Never before has it been more important to be able to pray. And …
The sobering news about having kids is in the realization that you are not as in control as you thought you were. And few seasons in life attune us to this reality like sending our kid off to school. There our child encounters a thousand situations, relations, temptations that we will not even be present …
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God calls us to relate to peace as something we already have, not something we have to “get to” or “work towards” or “bring about” by controlling/ changing our circumstances.
