Celebrating Advent isn’t the point. Ultimately, we want all our activity this season — the busyness and the intentionality — to pull us closer to our God.

Choosing to surrender is difficult. Yet in the middle of these very real challenges, I’ve found there are blessings too.

How do we surrender our hopes and dreams when we know there is no guarantee they will come to be?

The opposite of grumbling over what we don’t have is gratitude for what we do have. Here are a few tips on how to change course from grumbling to gratitude.

Why should single adults care about kids?

Investing is confusing and can be risky. But we gain so much by stepping into these new experiences, and our economy is improved by our participation.

It’s really about one question: Am I willing — glad, even — to spend and be spent for someone else’s good?

God has certainly blessed the people around me. But He has blessed me, too.