By Christy Barritt Parents Value Grades over Kindness A new study by a researcher at Harvard has found that parents value grades and athletic success more than showing kindness. Rick Weissbourd and his colleagues surveyed 10,000 children from across the country and asked them to rank various values in importance. Eighty percent of the […]
By Dave Butts Going vertical will change your life. And Columbus, Ohio, is the place this fall to get vertical. Vertical is the theme for the International Conference on Missions (ICOM), meeting in Columbus, November 13-16, 2014. Why Vertical as a theme? Because going Vertical will maximize our horizontal impact. Missions, like virtually all […]
By Bev and Phil Haas Our kids are two and a half years apart. The youngest just left for college. If she’s anything like her older brother, we’re entering the proverbial empty nest. My husband and I are dealing with lots of emotions, ranging from the joy of seeing them grow up to the […]
By David Faust No section of the Bible portrays the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ more clearly than the book of Hebrews. According to this letter, Christ is “the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3). Christ is “superior to […]
By Sam E. Stone Even while the people of Israel were living as exiles in Babylon, they still received encouragement and hope from the Lord. In this month’s study we focus on the messages God sent through the prophet Jeremiah. James E. Smith pointed out that the material in chapters 30-33 was not part […]
