Too many times, kids are fed the narrative that science and God are enemies. This may happen so frequently that they accept it as Gospel truth without questioning the premise. As a former college prep Biology and Chemistry teacher, I wholeheartedly disagree. And...
(This is way number four in the blog series The Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus.) Pray for them. Strategically. Seriously. Scripturally. Intentionally. Intelligently. And with other moms.* And yes, while you can do it alone, while...
In my series on “Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus,” I’m serving up way number three: Develop or reinforce the basic spiritual disciplines of Bible Study and prayer. It’s doubtful parents would send their kids to college...
It’s a faith-building booster shot called apologetics. In my blog series The Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus, I proposed that way number two was building confidence for the truth and evidence of Christianity and a biblical...
In my blog post “Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus,” I promised individual posts on each way with resources and action steps to help you accomplish spiritual preparation. Here’s number one. I remember it like it was...
I had an interesting interaction with a sweet, well-meaning woman on Twitter today in response to the Dallas Observer ‘s article on “The Bible and Beer Consortium.” It should come as no surprise that she was questioning Christian freedom to imbibe alcohol, sending me...
If you are the mom of a soon-to-be-college freshman, hang on. You will survive. But the more important question might be—will your child survive spiritually? Even if he or she has checked all the boxes associated with growing up in the church? I have walked in your...
The last 2 blog posts, we discussed the importance of incorporating suffering and rejection into our children’s wordviews. The final piece of the puzzle is allowing space for doubt. When doubt is not incorporated into the Christian worldview, bad things happen....
In the previous post, we discussed the necessity of teaching our kids that suffering is not evidence against God, but rather a part of living in a fallen and broken world. Jesus did not come to save us from everything in the world, at least not at the present time....
A coherent, Christian worldview anticipates the storms of life. In interacting with people who have walked away from the faith, I have uncovered three main themes that were not integrated with their view of Christ in a healthy way. Thus, when the storms came, these...
Our homegroup was talking about the passage in Matthew where Jesus cautions the multitudes to build their homes on the rock and not the sand. One of the study questions we asked the group was, “What is the difference between rock and sand?” The Sunday School answer is...
I was recently interacting with a young man on Facebook who is part of the crowd that my husband and I ran with back in Dallas. He was obviously struggling with a lot of stuff and (with my husband in the room and with his full knowledge) I started up a conversation...
I had the pleasure of attending a conference this weekend on the topic of the reliability and historicity of the documents of the New Testament. At the conference, I heard a story that really got my goat though. I was told that there were some in the Christian...
