Mature Living

Tame the Flame Walk wisely in a world on fire. by ASHLEY MARIVITTORI GORMAN O YOU FEEL like the world around you has been lit aflame, fiery arguments breaking out left and right? Whether it’s political, theological, or otherwise, it seems like people just can’t stop fighting. No matter the issue, have you noticed that […]

The Narrator Who is the voice inside your child’s head? by MATT JACOBSON HERE’S A REASON Coke® and Pepsi® will spend billions advertising in 2022. When you’re thinking about something to drink, they are determined to do every-thing in their power to ensure that the voice inside your head speaks their thoughts — the thoughts […]

Entrusted with Their Hearts Give your grandchildren a firm foundation of faith. by STEPHANIE MURPHY IN TODAY’S WORLD, our grandchildren need us to give them a firm foundation of faith. They are receiving many confusing and incongruent messages in our upside-down world. As grandparents, we play a unique and valuable role in the lives of […]

One Bad Apple Watch out for the pitfalls. BY ROBERT J. MORGAN From childhood, Félix Carvajal of Cuba loved walking and running. During the Spanish-American War, he was a courier who ran from post to post, delivering dispatches. After the war he became a Cuban mail carrier. One day Félix read about the 1904 Olympic […]

Anchored to the Throne Because our Savior ascended to heaven, we have a sure hope. by ROBERT J. MORGAN AN OVERSEAS CHRISTIAN asked me a question I couldn’t answer: “Why don’t you Americans celebrate Ascension Sunday the way you do Christmas and Easter?” Churches in other countries, he said, emphasize Ascension and Pentecost, because those […]

The Big Kind of Forgiveness Pray to love the one who has hurt you. by LEE ECLOV FORGIVENESS, AT LEAST TO A POINT, just makes good sense. You’ve probably heard the analogy that choosing not to forgive is like taking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. We can forgive a lot […]