Faith in God’s Character
Whatsoever Series: One of the realities of a college family’s experience is not being physically near your student (child, sibling, grandchild) and seeing first-hand how they are doing. Parent and Family Connections answers a variety of questions about the college experience, but mostly the regular theme in our reply is uplifting a family member’s faith…
For What They See
Whatsoever Series: “And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:1b). Oh, be careful little eyes what you see Oh, be careful little eyes what you see For the Father up above is looking down in love, Oh, be…
To Be a College Parent: Be Their Praying Warrior
Whatsoever Series: Students are about to put into action all the training they’ve heard and seen in their families at home. Parents, are you up to the challenge? You are on the threshold of an updated role, to be revised and refined for the glory of God’s design. If that seems like a heavy statement,…
I’m Not Your GPS!
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma Where are we going? Do you know the way? Where’s the map? How long will it take? Where will we eat along the way? These are all questions our children, spouses, or we have asked before taking a trip. A GPS is a great way to find…
Grudge or Garage
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma As we begin to plan for the upcoming academic year, your child may be leaving home for the first time to attend college. Maybe this is a second or third child for you and you feel more prepared. For the first-timers, especially, there are plenty of questions…
From Death to New Life
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma I never cease to be totally amazed by our God’s omniscience and creativity in nature and how it relates to our lives! A dear friend has a Christmas cactus that belonged to her grandmother, so it is well over 50 years old and it still blooms –…
Seeds and Champions
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma Jesus regularly used gardening and farming stories to teach spiritual truths. Because I grew up as a farmer’s daughter, I can readily imagine what Jesus wanted His listeners to see. There are still lessons to hear in Jesus’s stories about seeds. As we celebrate Graduation at Liberty…
Perseverance is Lovely
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma As always, God again uses His creation to teach something to me this spring. I have tulips planted along the sidewalk in front of my house. I used to have them in lots of different flowerbeds on the property, but every spring, the deer come and eat…
Stay on the Field Together
Whatsoever Series: Romans 5:3-5 “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” If you’ve ever sat on the…
Colossians 3 Peace
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma About five years ago the Lord showed me something in His Word I had not seen before in all the 46 years I have been walking with Him. It has changed the way I think about the things that are transpiring in our world. I pray it…
