Category: Christian Living
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Dating As a Single Parent – Part 6: Dating Someone Without Children
Dating someone without children can feel exciting and complicated all at once. Before you give your heart, ask the deeper question: can they truly step into the structure, sacrifice, and steady love that comes with dating a parent?
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Dating As a Single Parent – Part 5: Teenagers, Truth, and Trust
Teenagers notice everything, especially when parents start dating again. Here’s how to date thoughtfully without asking your teen to carry emotional weight they were never meant to hold.
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Access to Scripture, Anchored in Truth – How to Choose a Bible Translation Faithfully
How to Choose a Bible Translation Without Compromising Doctrine Few questions generate more conversation among Christians than Bible translations. Which one is best? Which one is most accurate? Which one should everyone be using? Before answering any of that, it helps to step back and ask a better question. What is a translation actually trying…
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Dating As a Single Parent – Part 4: Dating with School-Age Children
Dating after divorce changes when your children are old enough to notice tone, patterns, and silence. This piece explores how honest, age-appropriate conversations build trust, protect their hearts, and quietly shape how they will one day love others.
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Admiring Jesus Costs Nothing – Taking Him Seriously Costs Everything
Jesus is easy to admire from a distance. Bonhoeffer reminds us why the moment we take Him seriously, curiosity gives way to confrontation, and everything is suddenly at stake.
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Dating As a Single Parent – Part 3: Dating with Young Children
Dating as a single parent changes when your child is still learning how to trust the world. This piece explores why slowing down, protecting attachment, and honoring sacred responsibility in the earliest years may be one of the most faithful choices you can make.
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Why do good things still leave us unsatisfied?
Satisfaction is shaped less by what we love and more by the order of our loves. Order matters more than intensity.
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Civilized Behavior and the Illusion of Ethics
We assume we are more ethical than those who came before us because we are more restrained, more tolerant, and more socially polished. But what if what we call moral progress is really just civilized behavior—and the heart has never changed at all?
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Dating As a Single Parent – Part 2: Do I Have Margin?
Dating as a single parent isn’t first a question of desire, it’s a question of margin. This piece asks the harder, wiser question most of us skip, and explains why counting the cost may protect your heart, your child, and your walk with God more than immediately jumping in ever could.
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Dating As a Single Parent – Part 1: Only God Can Fix Our Brokenness
Dating cannot become the thing we prioritize in order to recreate a family, soothe loneliness, or prove that we are still desirable, chosen, or worthy. Dating must flow from fullness and not from depletion.
Breakwater Blessings 