Effective parents are people who have fully learned to embrace a very uncomfortable tension. They embrace the reality that their family isn’t want it could be or should be. At the same time, they fully embrace and purse the vision for what God wants...

Now that we've done the work of forgiving others, there's one last component to triggering happiness. It's to see people as Jesus sees them. Jesus has the eye of an artist. He can see beauty in his mind's eye before it exists...

If you have a wound, it will either get infected or it will heal. There's no third option. The same is true when someone sins against you. Your inner life will either heal, or it will get infected. But there's some misinformation about...

Whenever we're wronged, it's tempting to hang on to resentment and grudges because we think that if we let it go, then the guilty will get away with their wrongdoing. It's only when we zoom out and remember that God is the perfect...

The reason why people are quick to anger is because we forget how offensive we are, both to others, and, more specifically, to God. By default, we're experts at casting ourselves as victims, and telling ourselves stories that put us at the...

People are easily angered and quick to take offense these days. But taking offense isn't just unhealthy, its ungodly. Holding on to offense never hurts the person who offends you. It only hurts you. It hurts your health. It hurts your inner...

Christmas might not be what we want it to be this year. Traditions and celebrations will not go on as normal. But instead of being passive, or embracing self-pity, we’re determined to spark joy this Christmas. We’ll see how the Christmas story sparks...

Today's chapter shows how Naomi's story comes to its redemptive arc. In the final chapter, all the details of God's providence come together to show how God had planned from the beginning of the story to redeem Naomi through the birth...

Trusting God doesn't mean that we should live passively, waiting for God to do whatever God is going to do. Living by faith also means taking initiative and acting on the opportunities that God has provided in His providence. There's an...

Naomi and Ruth are destitute. They need food to survive. It just so happens that Ruth goes to glean barley in the field of Boaz, who just so happens to be Naomi's relative and kinsman redeemer. Boaz just so happens to be a Godly man who...