Month: September 2014

The Daily Docket (9/4/14)

A Tale of Two Mars Hills— A very good analysis from Eric Geiger. The Marriage Bed for the Exhausted Wife— This couple used to connect intimately multiple times per week, even daily. That dwindled to twice per week, then once. Now the exhausted wife avoids sex as much as possible and the couple is distant emotionally, …

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The Daily Docket (9/3/14)

When Childhood Has Become A Race— Every parent needs to read this. Could it not be that our ambitions for our children’s success, however we define it, busy our children out of opportunities for their real formation? In my own family, what’s most important seem to be the insignificant events: meals together around the table, Saturday …

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Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church

Mental illness and the church, not many people are talking about this issue, but it is real and it is affecting individuals and churches all across the landscape of Christianity.  In my own church, mental illness is a normal reality with which we wrestle on a regular basis. We have many young people and adults …

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