Long before they consider marriage, girls get a lot of confusing signals about sexuality from a variety of different voices. I hope every girl considers (or reconsiders) their own purity in the months and years leading up to her wedding. As the father of four girls, I’d like to share a Dad’s perspective on purity….
My husband and I were visiting his parents back when he and I were still just engaged. It was a normal visit, a normal day, a normal moment. The four of us walked along, talking about this and that, and my father-in-law cracked a joke. I stopped dead in my tracks. “What did you say?”…
If the echoing theme in the first half of Born to Deliver, was loneliness, the second half is indisputably adoption. Kathy Brace’ story opens with the agonizing birth of her first child when she is fifteen years old. Within hours, her son was stripped from her arms and given up for adoption. Her young heart had…
Maybe the most compelling story isn’t the one we identify with, but the one that breaks our hearts. It’s the story we pray never comes true. The book, Born to Deliver, is the personal story of Kathy Brace and the slow, painful, permanent way that Jesus drew her to Himself. At the tender age of fifteen, Brace…
This past Summer my family and I made a trip to South Mississippi to visit Stephanie’s, my wife, grandmother. I’d been to her house before, but had never spent more than a couple hours at a time there. This trip was different. We planned on spending 3 days and 2 nights in this small farming…
