Around Christmas time I made a batch of cocoa cookies. I had made this family recipe many times, so I was quite surprised when I bit into the finished product and it tasted like burnt play-dough. What had gone wrong? Why had my baking skills suddenly turned into a baking curse? I checked the milk…
Steve Taylor is no stranger to controversy, to the notion, as he said, Criticism comes best from within.” There was the time, during his 12-year, Grammy-nominated recording career, his album “I Predict 1990,” which opens with the satirical “I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good,” was pulled from shelves at Christian music stores. And the…
Much of what I remember from Easter celebrations of years past come from the photo albums kept for me throughout the years. There’s the picture of my mom and me, age 4, wearing matching blue and white striped dresses standing in front of a bare tree with colorful plastic Easter eggs hanging from its branches. Or…
What is the first word you think of when you hear “single Christian woman?” Did you think something along the lines of “husband” or “marriage?” Wait! This post may not be going in the direction you are anticipating–it is not about men stepping up, it is not about squashing desires for marriage, it is not…
FEATURED GUEST: Mark Driscoll My wife Grace and I took the biggest risk in our ministry lives with the launch of our new book, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together. In the book, we’re brutally honest about the hardships we’ve faced as a couple. We tell our testimony, not because that in…
