Question: Our family has been stuck at home for most of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve enjoyed the extra time together, but lately I’ve noticed our nerves are fraying. Lots of bickering and rolled eyes, and not just from the children. Any ideas for teaching our kids how to be gracious and forgiving toward each other, […]
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Meet Gen Z: New ambassadors to the now generation
The world’s largest generation is diverse, mobile, and largely non-Christian. Generation Z, generally identified as people born between 1996 and 2010, is more than 90 million strong. Its sheer size would make it a missions force to be reckoned with, if Gen Z-ers were compelled by the Holy Spirit to give their lives for the sake […]
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One class I needed to take in college as part of my Communication Arts major was simply called Salesmanship. I learned a lot, mostly because the class was taught by an experienced sales executive who had retired from a large Chicago agency. During one class, after what I thought had been one of my more […]
Painful perfection
Question: I’m a perfectionist. This causes problems with my wife and children who say I am “controlling.” As a Christian I want things to be better, but the harder I try, the worse things get. Answer: Here’s a cautionary tale by a recovering perfectionist. The pursuit of absolute perfection is a false noble cause. The […]
I’m racist–but not like you think
Some of the earliest conversations I remember about the Civil Rights movement were happening above my head in my grandmother’s beauty shop. But while the shampoo-and-set ladies were still sputtering about the Freedom Riders, my first-grade class was being integrated. As I remember it, none of us six-year-olds had a problem with Beverly or Geneva […]
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