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My sister once tried to witness to an older gentleman, who told her he was an atheist. As they continued the conversation, it turned out that he had gone to Sunday school faithfully as a child. One day, his dog had died. He asked his Sunday school teacher if dogs go to heaven. She flippantly replied, “Of course not.” He told my sister that at that moment he decided that he didn’t want to go to heaven then either. I don’t think the right response would have been for her to li

When you travel, you will inevitably experience culture shock. The first stage is dubbed the honeymoon stage. It is when everything is new and exciting. We, however, jumped straight into the frustration stage. After we landed, I had to wrangle an overtired, active toddler and juggle our 3 carry-on bags, laptop bag, diaper bag and car seat while my husband went to claim our 5 suitcases. This was after going through a couple of lines to obtain our visas. By this point, we were

Growing up, my mom always taught us Bible stories. We would often host a 5-day Bible club in our front lawn. The neighborhood kids knew to come to our house to hear Bible stories. When I was 12, our pastor’s wife joined our efforts to reach the children in our area. The kids who came were mostly from broken homes. One day, a boy shared that he didn’t have a dad. “Me neither.” Another kid agreed. Then the class clown blurted out dramatically, “I have too many dads!” He came fr