Taking Care of Home

The parable of the lost son in Luke 15 is really a parable about two lost sons. The younger one runs to a far country and wastes everything.

The fruits of the Spirit are nine qualities that grow in a life shaped by God: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Paul lists them in Galatians 5:22-23, and he calls them fruit, not works, because they are produced by the Spirit at work in us, not by us trying harder.

Bible verses for healing remind us that God is close to the brokenhearted and gives strength to the weary. Scripture does not promise a life without pain, but it promises a God who stays.

The death and resurrection of Jesus for kids is not one story among many in the Bible — it is the story that every other story has been pointing toward.

The Bible gives fathers two primary instructions and they work together. The first is a warning: do not exasperate your children. The second is a calling: bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. What Scripture is describing is not a list of parenting techniques or a standard of provision to meet. It is a posture — formative, present, attentive — that shapes how a child understands God, themselves, and the world they were born into.

The prodigal son story for kids is one of three parables Jesus told in a row in Luke 15, and it is the longest. A son demands his inheritance, wastes it, ends up feeding pigs in a foreign country, and comes home expecting to be made a servant. What he finds instead is his father running toward him before he could finish his rehearsed speech.

Science does not disprove God. It cannot — not because the question is off-limits or too sacred to examine, but because science is a methodology for investigating natural causes, and God, if He exists, is not a natural phenomenon subject to scientific investigation.

The disciples had spent time with Jesus, watched him heal people, heard him teach — and in one storm they fell apart with fear. What happens next is not a lesson about trusting more. It is a demonstration of who Jesus is.

Women appear at nearly every major turning point in the biblical narrative, from Sarah at the beginning of the covenant to Lydia at the opening of the gospel in Europe. The variety of women Scripture honors is striking: a barren matriarch who laughed at the promise, an enslaved woman cast out in the wilderness who gave God a name, a foreign prostitute woven into the lineage of Jesus, a Moabite widow, a teenage girl in a backwater town, a wealthy merchant who became the first church planter in Europe.

The good samaritan story for kids is one of Jesus's most familiar parables, and it ends with only four words: go and do the same. What makes it so striking is that the hero was the person no one expected, not the priest, not the religious leader, but the outsider that the culture of Jesus's day looked down on.

Scriptures on shame point to one steady truth: in Christ, shame does not get the final word over you. Verses like Romans 8:1, Psalm 34:5, and Isaiah 61:7 show that God removes condemnation, lifts the face that has been looking down, and trades shame for honor. The Bible takes shame seriously, and then it answers it with grace.

The women in the Bible who are called strong are not strong because they were independently fearless or because they had more natural courage than the people around them. Most of them were afraid. Several of them were grieving. One was a teenager facing circumstances that defied any ordinary explanation.