I find myself in an odd stage of motherhood — both of my sons are young career adults; one is married; I’m not yet a grandmother. It’s sort of an in-between time. I feel as close to, and as far away from, motherhood as the miles (2 and 380) my sons are from me. By all...
(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...
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...
