The scope of catechesis from the Reformation was broad and included not only instruction at church but in the home and in schools.

Sometimes I think I've gone through the whole forgiveness process, but forgiveness for me often feels like I'm weeding my garden. I forgive and another offense pops up.

They cannot know that I am already a father, but, this side of eternity, I won’t ever meet my child because of a miscarriage.

We tell the little story of the Gospel because our great stories ultimately reflect Christ.

We might assume that all ways are equal to raising a child in wisdom, but they are not.

They say girls in our society should have nothing to worry about. They should have the opportunity for education and choices far beyond generations before.

Never has the law fallen so hard on me as in motherhood. Never before was I more aware that my best wasn’t good enough.

We need a God who can heal us of true guilt and false guilt. We need a Christ who not only removes the shame we feel for what we’ve done, but who washes away the shame that others have smeared upon us.

God knows our need. He knows how it is to raise unruly children. He is very experienced in dealing with rebellion.

Being a run-of-the-mill, mediocre parent is a gift to your children. It models for them what life is all about: the little things, the overlooked things, the minuscule elements of daily life that—in various ways—are God’s gifts to us.

That image of the “godly woman” haunted me from examples in the Bible of honorable women.

You have suffered your son to come unto Jesus; but fathers, don’t let him die!