Practical Applications Archives

In order to find a lifelong love, you first need to learn how to love God and yourself in ways that will prepare you to date successfully.

Is Christianity compatible with feminism? Ask this question in nearly any Christian circle and you are almost sure to get some heated responses...

I’ll never forget the moment the doctor diagnosed my husband with a chronic illness. We knew our lives would be forever changed because this...

If you can document all the most important parts of your life without mentioning Jesus, it’s time to wonder whether you’re really following Him at...

Everyone is having more adventures than you are. At least, that’s what it can feel like on social media.

If the people around me never judge me and never call my actions to account, do they really love me?

You might enjoy this because we all talk too much.

How do we respond to criticism? I haven’t always done well and I’m still learning, but here are a few things I try to think of when others...

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Dating is a source of immeasurable joy and pain, tangled up in a beautiful, complicate mess—testing us, shaping us, and often blinding us. So how...

Throughout history, Christians have vacillated between two extremes: compromising with the culture or removing themselves from it. Neither is...

All of us parents sometimes fail to model faith in action well to our kids, despite our best intentions.

I am inviting all of you, all of us, to a new conversation. It doesn’t matter when you began torturing yourself with criticism, but it needs to...

We take our cues from God when it comes to how we demonstrate love to others.

Believer, you are part of a very real spiritual conflict. You may not even be aware of it, which of course means the devil has you right where he...