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Last month we celebrated our son’s engagement at a brewery in the Alger Heights neighborhood of Grand Rapids. Under the laughter and my...

Is urgently and unapologetically protecting the most defenseless among us--without exceptions--extreme?

I’ve been on a 27-year expedition that is coming to a close. If raising them was a great inhale, it’s about time for a seismic exhale.

Minutes after Isabella Marie Spry was born, Scott holds his fourth-born, September 2004 Some babies are adorable. Some, maybe not so...

Two thousand years ago, on the early dawn of the Day of Firstfruits, a Jewish carpenter-rabbi came back from the dead after having been nail

WARNING: This post contains disturbing graphic content. “Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them....

We are about to embark on an exciting new adventure. We three are absolutely smitten by this adorable new adventure. His name is Buck.

It has been a gradual transition, watching our four children launch into adulthood. Nine years ago as our first child prepared to leave...

Life can often be beautiful and rosy. Sometimes dull, lonely or exciting. And sometimes, due to reasons we can control and other times...

I was taken to a room that had three exam tables all lined up in a row. I was taken to the last one and asked to lie down...

Summer 2021 is now history. It was abundantly good. God is good. I am constantly in awe of his mercy and favor. The following photo essay...

"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him."

Disenchantment really hit me hard when life wasn’t perfect after 8th grade. School isn’t easy, some people aren’t nice, seasonal . . .

(Thank you to our dear daughter, Bailey June, for sharing her poetry.) For Jake Red. The color of your little boots, feet on the wrong...

Just as lighthouses guide ship and boat captains through rough waters, each of us needs to find guiding lights to help us navigate life.

Happy Father’s Day Dad, I love you. We all love you. This Father’s Day, hundreds of miles away, I will attempt to articulate exactly why...

Becoming a parent is pretty amazing, but mothers definitely have a unique perspective. Whether by adoption or by birth, becoming a mother...

This season of death has made the reality of the resurrection and the absolute necessity of a RISEN Savior all the more real to me. He IS...

When I was little I used to think that concrete roads were made of mashed, baked banana. How ridiculous is that?! I learned early on that...

Do not imagine that you in your comfortable life will escape the evil repercussions of a culture that kills their unwanted...