The Gospel-Centered Mom

Three years ago the Big Question was looming: Are we done having kids? I had just given birth to my fourth son. Life was busy. Busy. We had had four boys in five years. We had moved four times, started a business, helped start a church, began homeschooling...

(This article originally appeared in The Gospel Coalition on October 13, 2017.)
The best part about watching my firstborn learn to read was knowing he was well on his way to reading the Bible for himself. It was amazing to think God’s Word would be accessible to him....

"Everywhere I look it's the same story about the sweet manger scene."
This comment came from a reader who has the same question many of us do this time of year: How do we point our kids to the gospel at Christmastime? It goes beyond simply setting up a nativity scene on the mantle and singing good old fashioned hymns....

(This article originally appeared on gentleleading.com.)
I just have to laugh at the audacity of babies. They think they rule the universe. Recently I took my 12-month-old on an airplane. I held him up to the window, expecting him to be spellbound by the massive size of the airplane, the speed, the height...