Family Update Archives

Often shame and guilt keep us from reaching out to God—or anyone else—even when our marriages are about to hit rock bottom.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein

Ever have someone kick you when you’re down? Be cruel when you need compassion? Meet "No-Budge Beulah."

When you give something up, let it be so that the Lord can teach you something, not so that you can boast or draw attention to yourself.

The last year had been wrought with blessing and struggle: we’d lost two houses, gained two babies, and quit one job.

If you’re bored in your marriage, you don’t have to seek a way out. Rather, you can create a new marriage from within.

Rainy days will come, but take heart, the trouble is momentary. Jesus has overcome (John 16:33).

If more kids knew their purpose, they'd have fewer struggles in the teen years. They'd feel a sense of meaning.

Ever since Kyle moved to college, our occasional breakfast date usually made me smile. But I wasn’t smiling this morning.

There’s a reason that patience is first thing used to describe or define love. Without patience, you have no love.

"Maybe you should just give up on this one" never made a nice motivational poster, but there's a beautiful lesson there.

If you're broke, don't despair. You'll always have enough help from God to grow beyond the challenges you face.

Do we truly stop to ponder, pray, and prepare our hearts to celebrate the day that changed history forever?

Do you want your spouse to improve? To be better? Find rest in the struggle.

Patriarchy means, literally, “rule by fathers.” It is an ancient pagan concept, but not a Christian one.