Every time Dr. R. B. Ouellette has been at our church, he always asks my brothers and me the same question. Without fail, he asks, “Pastors’ kids are… what?” If we answer correctly, he gives each of us $20. Pastor Ouellette was a preacher’s kid himself, and he has been asking that same question for decades to the hundreds of pastors’ kids he has met.

“What is God’s will for my life?” We often put this question in the mouth of young people, like high school juniors or college freshmen. The question assumes that a person is on the front side of making major life decisions, and that as he matures he will learn to discern God’s will as he goes along. Here’s another question about God’s will, though, that you may have wondered, even if you have made those decisions already and are well underway into jobs, marriage, or parentin

From the beginning, God create humans to be in fellowship with other men (Gen. 2:18). Part of being a Christian husband or wife, a Christian son or daughter, a Christian American citizen, a Christian resident in your neighborhood, a Christian friend, and a member of the body of Christ is to be involved in other people’s lives, and for them to be involved in yours.

When you're grieving, life can be miserable. Sleepless nights, emotional pain, and frequent tears are all familiar experiences for anyone who has experienced grief. Because of the intensity of feeling that grief brings, and because it is easy to lose perspective when everything seems to have fallen apart and life becomes a labor, it is important to turn to Scripture. Let’s examine biblical answers to some common questions about grief.

In the 1960s, when psychological studies in the U.S. first began truly to go off the rails, Stanford researchers conducted a study that today is simply referred to as “the marshmallow test.” In this overly simplified version of the experiment, a child was given a marshmallow with the promise that, if he refrained from eating it for 15 minutes, he would be given a second marshmallow. Assuming that the researcher is trustworthy, the time is not urgent, and the child likes marsh

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). Children grow up. It sounds simple enough, but every parent eventually discovers how quickly those words become reality. One day they are reaching up for your hand, asking you to carry them across a stream. The next day they are following your footsteps across mountains, eager to prove they can do what mom and dad do.