
Interview: “Divorce in Real Life” – Part 2
How do the children of divorce process the confusing and conflicting emotions that tear at their hearts? What can you say to them that will restore a lost relationship and keep them close to God?
How do the children of divorce process the confusing and conflicting emotions that tear at their hearts? What can you say to them that will restore a lost relationship and keep them close to God?
Sooner or later, everyone needs a safe place, a protected place—cover from a blasting storm. When the sleet of illness pelts your life, when the downpour of grief drenches your heart, when the winds of anxiety threaten to knock you down, you need a secret place, a hiding place to escape from those things threatening to knock the props from your life. You need the shelter of the Most High!
Rebecca and Michael Lukens on Rebecca’s challenges at home, an unplanned pregnancy before they were married, life as a single mom, being evicted from her apartment, Michael’s entrance into her life, the challenges of marriage, and why divorce was never an option.
Have you ever heard the term “mortification of the flesh”? That’s how theological writers of old termed what Paul presents in our passage today. These writers understood the spiritual battle—the old life, ruled by the sinful nature, versus the new life, ruled by the Spirit.
What’s on your mind? What do you find yourself thinking about? What are the default thoughts that occupy your mental energy?