I recently shared in my monthly newsletter that parenting teens and parenting toddlers may not be as different as we think. When your kids were little and struggled to fall asleep, you grabbed the keys and drove around town to lure them into dreamland. Recently, when one of my older kids was struggling with […]
You don’t have to have it all figured out to have a rich conversation with your kids We’ve all seen what is happening in Israel and Gaza on the news. It’s heart-wrenching and brings up some big questions in our own adult minds. Anytime Israel is involved, we wonder about its greater significance in […]
Like the “gadgets and gizmos” adorning Ariel’s underwater grotto, the moral and spiritual implications of Disney’s The Little Mermaid are equally plentiful. Whenever Disney remakes a classic, we wonder if the entertainment giant will be able to do it justice. Will 2023’s The Little Mermaid have us falling in love with the story all […]
How Investing in Others Creates Family *This foster care journey was originally published in Becky Bereford’s Brave Women Series. You can access the full story on her website at beckyberesford.com. Stay. That’s the word I got from God after receiving the publishing company acceptance letter—my first potential job in my field of study. […]
The Quirky Star Wars Robot Teaches Us to Keep the Faith My neighbor knows I love to find the gospel in a good movie. When she invited me to speak at her student ministry’s winter retreat, it wasn’t long before a text came through, “Hey do you think you could incorporate R2-D2 into one […]
If you’re like me, you’ve already begun to sense that creeping-in feeling of those bittersweet holidays. Like an eight-legged arachnid that crawls its way onto the leg of your new fall jeans while you’re trying to enjoy a moment in nature, the holidays creep in, threatening to steal your joy, sanity, and what little you […]
20 Things Disney Characters Have Said that Parallel Biblical Principles Who doesn’t love a good Disney movie? The animation is out of this world, the storytellers are the world’s greatest, and there is usually a moment toward the movie’s end that makes you work to choke back tears. Don’t worry—your secret’s safe with me. […]
One of the hardest things in the life of our faith is making big decisions. How do we keep the faith when the impact of our decision could be consequential? My friend and fellow writer, Sharla Hallett wrote the following guest post for Something Like Scales as an alternative takeaway of Paul’s Acts 9 “something […]
Alice in Wonderland (2010) is a story about Ebenezers. When Alice is a little girl, her father instills in her the brilliant idea to believe in “six impossible things before breakfast.” Later in life, as she’s preparing to slay the Red Queen and doubting she has what it takes, she’ll have to call upon this […]
Bethel song sums up my experience What’s your biggest fear? For me, it’s been my health. In recent years, I’ve had some nagging health nuisances—little things that, over time, developed into bigger issues. I’ve been sent to the hospital, had repeat blood workups, and seen my practitioner’s head turn sideways, perplexed. In short, in […]
