It’s a helpless feeling. Someone you love is struggling or grieving, and you want to help but don’t know how. We mean well, but often don’t know what to say ...

(Without Losing Your Mind) Fostering responsibility in our kids is a common parenting thread that weaves from toddlerhood through adulthood. Sometimes this i...

I can practically hear the 007 theme song as I stealthily observe my surroundings, Jackie-O sunglasses obscuring half my face in case I run into anyone famil...

The Elephant in the Room: I’m just going to say it: every time I hear the story of Adam and Eve, I think that they were kind of—well, dumb. I confess I’ve po...

It was a familiar scene. I had so many things to get done that I didn’t know where to even start, which made me avoid tackling the mountain of tasks altogeth...

This is Captain Adam Snyder, Ethan’s former roommate and West Point classmate. Adam selflessly volunteered to leave the safety of a desk job to lead a platoo...

Just about every parent on the planet has had at least one moment when they wondered if their precious child had actually morphed into a rabid animal. And if...

One of the things that I love most about Jesus is that He was kind of a rebel. When others scoffed that He couldn’t travel there or shouldn’t associate with ...

I am one out of every five people who has directly experienced moderate to severe anxiety. If you’re in this club as well, welcome! You’re in fine company wi...

One quintessential autumn afternoon, I was enjoying a walk in the crisp golden air with my two young kids and our beloved yellow lab Shiloh trotting along wi...

We all hear it sometimes. The little inner voice called self-doubt that greedily wants to bask in the spotlight of our life’s center stage. It can take the f...

One day my college roommates and I were feeling especially victorious after figuring how out to hook-up a portable DVD player to the stone relic that was our...

Despite the picture our social scrolls may paint, no other person out there is a perfect parent. Even that glamorous, strictly-organic mom friend whose kids ...