Why Parents Should Consider the Image of God

We want our kids to honor the Lord in everything, so others would see their lives and give glory to their Father in Heaven (Matthew 5:16). This is God’s purpose in creating humanity, and it’s also our objective in parenting. In the midst of all the conversations about how to help our kids discover who they are, we’ve completely overlooked the importance of teaching them what they are: human beings, created in God’s image.

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Mike McGarry
The Pressure to Parent Perfectly

We have an opportunity to tell the sufferer and the struggler, “The result of walking with the Spirit will be goodness in your life, and goodness is good for you and for everyone else.” Yes, we will suffer. Yes, we will struggle. But how sweet it is of God to grow goodness in our lives through our relationship with him! It’s okay to be okay, and it’s more than okay to stay that way.

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Book Review: EMPTY!

While the resurrection story is central to our faith, it’s a story most Christians are so familiar with that it becomes easy to breeze right by the empty tomb. We could use a fresh entry point to remind believers how massive this moment of sacrificial generosity and overwhelming grace actually is. Thankfully, Joshua Cooley offers a great hook to anchor us to the beauty of the resurrection in his latest kids book, EMPTY!

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Liberty in a World of Freedom Substitutes

It’s easy to look for freedom in all the wrong places. In fact, when people today define “freedom,” it’s often a declaration of their individual autonomy—an announcement they’re not bound by legal, religious, or moral constraints. In John 8:31–32, Jesus had something different in mind: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,” he said, “and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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