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Group dates. Purity rings. We parents make a concerted effort to teach our kids to do it God’s way when it comes to intimacy. God elevates the status of physical intimacy by protecting its sanctity with the guardrails of chastity and marriage. Because intimacy is dirty? No, because it is precious. In the little Old…

Silence. Crickets. Dead air. When it comes to prayer, have you ever prayed and then—nothing? I hate that. I dread the battle that’s coming between flesh and spirit. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is not. My flesh wants to: Run ahead of God. Take the bull by the horns. Say yes in spite…

Mirror, mirror, help me start, To hide this verse within my heart. Last summer I advocated a method to memorize Scripture—writing out the verse until I can write it from memory with no mistakes. I stand by that method, but I’ve found a great way to supplement it. At present, I’m tackling Habakkuk. When I…

There’s a scene in Star Wars when Obi-wan says, “Empty your mind, Luke,” to which my husband and I always echo, “Luke, be stupid.” Stupid, because our minds are designed to be full—not empty. My spiritual discipline for this month is meditation. Unlike Eastern meditation which calls for an empty mind, Christian meditation involves a…