Suffering

Trend Alert: K-Pop Demon Hunters & Inner Battles

By: Julie Lowe   Download the full trend alert here. INTRO The world of K-Pop is often dazzling with choreographed precision, catchy beats, and polished images. Yet beneath the polished exterior, themes go deeper—exploring refrains of darkness, inner battles, and…
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God Shouts to Us in Our Pain

C.S. Lewis once said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, but shouts to us in our pains.” Those words capture a truth that the Scriptures put forth from Genesis to Revelation. It seems that whenever God would do his…
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Praying that our Kids Come to Themselves

Here’s an interesting strategy to consider as you think about how to lead the teenagers you know away from a culturally-influenced self-centered lifestyle, to a God-centered lifestyle: pray for crisis to enter their lives. Self-centeredness with no room for God…
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Facing Satan’s Strategies 5

All this week we’re looking at some four-hundred year old guidance and advice from the Puritan writer, Thomas Brooks. Specifically, Brooks has listed five remedies to the enemy of the soul’s  strategy to get us to see following Jesus as…
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Facing Satan’s Strategies 4

All this week we’re looking at some four-hundred year old guidance and advice from the Puritan writer, Thomas Brooks. Specifically, Brooks has listed five remedies to the enemy of the soul’s  strategy to get us to see following Jesus as…
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Facing Satan’s Strategies 3

All this week we’re looking at some four-hundred year old guidance and advice from the Puritan writer, Thomas Brooks. Specifically, Brooks has listed five remedies to the enemy of the soul’s  strategy to get us to see following Jesus as…
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Facing Satan’s Strategies 1

Almost four hundred years ago, the Puritan writer Thomas Brooks wrote a book about the strategies Satan uses to derail us from Christian growth. I’ve found his words to be very timely for life in today’s world. One devilish strategy…
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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 3

All this week we’re looking at what we need to embrace for ourselves and in turn teach to our kids about what it means to walk with God. The guidance comes from the writings of the seventeenth century Puritan writer,…
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Walking Through Adolescence with our Kids

The amount of change and questioning our kids face makes teenagers more vulnerable to stress than any other age group. Things that would never bother us as adults can be devastating to a teenager. The stuff we might write off…
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Are You a Burdened Parent?

I remember being a young kid and singing these words in church: “Are you weak and heavy-laden? Burdened with a load of care?” As parents, there have been times when all of us have had to honestly answer “Yes”. At…
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