The Scars We Have and the Scars We Give
Maybe the best way to parent my boys is to not to hide the hurt, but to show the healing.
Survival Guide: Lisa & Eric Barlow
Life isn't over. It took me some time to figure that out, and there were moments when I had wished it was. Looking at it now, I realize that we have been able to fulfill so many of our dreams, it has just looked different than we had planned.
Survival Guide: The Smiley Family
When you go through something hard, you’ll find a lot of well-meaning people are quick to reassure you that “God never gives you more than you can handle.” But if you’ve ever truly suffered, you know that’s not true. At some point in your life, even if you think you’re ready for it, God is going to give you more than you can handle. And then what do you do?
Survival Guide: Katherine & Jay Wolf
Hope Heals seeks to re-narrate the story of suffering by sharing the lives and lessons of real people—their honest answers, vulnerable struggles, and surprising transformations through enduring life's greatest storms.
Why I Love My MomBod
Beneath our pursuit of external beauty and eternal youth is both a deep fear—to escape death—and a deep longing—to be loved without having to earn it.
The Power of “We”
Community is the intentional surrender of our time, money, comfort, and emotional energy in interest of contributing to the healing of our neighbors and, ultimately, the healing of the world.
In Sickness and Health
We will never satisfy the endless needs and wants of our own hearts, but we are offered the escape hatch of committing to love and serve someone else instead.
Fully Known, Fully Loved
Failure provides a platform for forgiveness, grace, growth, and unconditional love. We cheat ourselves out of experiencing redemption when we build a facade around the failings.
Do We Need New Love Songs?
Is the cost of loving someone—a spouse, a friend, a stranger, God—ever worth what real commitment requires: The release of the self, the sacrifice of the self, even death of the self?