Family Update Archives

How can couples work together to stay watchful so that they are not the victims of an addiction, affair, separation or divorce?

Sitting Bull, the great Sioux chief, once said of the white man, “The love of possessions is a disease in them.”

Can Christians be ambitious in a way that is pleasing to God? Or is all ambition purely selfish?

The day my son left for college I thought my heart had just been ripped from my chest. And I'm not just saying that.

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.

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.

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

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.