A couple of weeks ago after church my family and I loaded up the van and headed out of town for a quick two-day camping trip in the mountains.  As is typical for a pastor family when trying to get out of town on a Sunday, we hit the road

Throughout scripture, God and pursuers of God continually implore us to “look to God.”  This is such a constant encouragement in scripture that “look to God” could very well be the summation of the life of faith or the Christian Life – a life spent looking to God. Looking to

There is this scene in the Bible where the Israelite people do something that seems rather comical and silly to us today. God had recently liberated the Israelite people out of generational slavery in Egypt and began leading them to a new land that they could call their own.  Along

There is part of a poem that has become an old saying, “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”  It is the refrain in an 1865 poem by William Ross Wallace called, “What Rules the World.”  I highly encourage you to read it. Motherhood

I’ve long suspected that the first two chapters of Genesis, written some thirty-five hundred years ago, had the right take on male-female relations. In our modern Western world, the battle of the sexes is all too often just that, a battle, an antagonistic competition.  Too often in human history women

Let’s work backwards in history on this one. You can turn on the news almost any day now and hear American lawmakers demanding that social media platforms censor “hate speech” even more than they already do.  If you didn’t know that the major social media platforms and Google curate what

“Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of

“Train up a children in the way they should go;even when they are old they will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 This advice is older than psychology – much older.  And time has only proven it to be more true. We know today that human development is heavily

Some of the things that Jesus said we’re not completely sure what he meant.  These tend to create interesting Bible study discussions, inspire authors to write thought-provoking books, and academics to launch into debates.  One of these is a short statement that Jesus seems to throw in at the end

I can only think of a couple of topics that have as profound of an impact on individual lives and the human condition as what we believe about and how we navigate sex.  I probably don’t need to tell you this, but it’s a big deal.  It has major implications