Personal Growth
The Legacy of a Christian Father
I grew up as a pastor’s kid. I am also adopted. My birth mom was only a teenager when she had me. She was in an abusive marriage with an alcoholic. In order to give me a better life, my birth mother and biological dad thought it in my best interest to be given to a family who could better care for me than they could. I was adopted by a Pastor...
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How You Can Love by Faith This is Part 1 of a 4 part series - How...
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Smooth Stones When I was a boy I didn’t know I loved my...
He was 80 and old. My friend was 50 and still mad at him. He had made mistakes in raising her. She could recount them well and she did as her fingers curled tightly around the invisible handle of the baggage she had carried for so long. Dads don’t always get it right. If you are a daughter you know that well already. Some Dads even get it terribly...
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1. Accept your age It’s wonderful to have the years behind us, the experience of living. Face-lifts and crash diets will not make us teenagers again. The miles are recorded inside us. We know where we have been and how long we’ve been on the road. The Bible gives us a guide to clothing: “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly...
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Everyone’s heard of adopting a child or adopting a pet, but have you ever heard of adopting a grandparent? Don’t worry, Mike and Brenda Loeschmann and their children hadn’t heard of such a thing either - at least not until they did it. It all started when the family moved from Canada to England because of Mike’s work. They found themselves...
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