In this busy day and age, it’s easy to let God’s Word slip through the cracks of our schedules. 2 Fish Talks will go with you to share the Bible with your kids, wherever you are! Let’s give our children the opportunity to know God and His Word so that their lives can have true […]
Is Your Child Biblically Literate?
Last month, I read a recent (2016) study that Barna did which stated that only 16% of our nation’s young adults believe the Bible to be the literal Word of God. That poll broke my heart. I really want my kids to be Biblically literate. I want them to know God’s Word because I utterly […]
Practical Hope for the Highly-Sensitive Mom
I became clued into the fact that I was most likely a highly-sensitive mother when I was reading the book, Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. As I read through the descriptors of what comprises a highly-sensitive child, I found myself identifying personally with many of them! Needless to say, in a home with […]
Is He Husband Material? 3 Ways to Tell
Some guys are meant to be ex-es. It’s as simple as that. Some men are just not ready to be husbands because they have not yet developed 3 of the essential qualities that all good husbands should have. These are not personality traits. They are character traits that can be learned and developed as a […]
Grief: When the Void Becomes the New Normal
Right after my mother passed away, I wondered what it would feel like when we all sort of adjusted to her no longer being with us. In some ways, the grief was stronger in the days leading up to her death. The dark, fearful anticipation of what it would be like when she was gone. […]
Love vs Lust- 4 Ways to Spot the Difference
The world will offer you many different ideas as to what love is. You can fall in love, and you can fall out of it. And society’s definition of love will change according to which culture and generation you live. But there is another way to determine true love. And it’s important in any relationship […]
Awesome List of FREE Christian Videos & Apps for Kids
I’m always looking for good shows for my kids to watch and apps for them to interact with. And we have done a lot of traveling in the few short years that they have been alive. Here’s a list of some of our favorite FREE ones: Videos on YouTube: 2 Fish Talks I’ve started this […]
What It’s REALLY Like to Live on the Mission Field
It’s cockroaches and invading ants. It’s weird croaking lizards that wake you up in the middle of the night, night after night because you don’t know how to catch them or even what they look like if you tried. It’s rats eating the garbage at night because people don’t own trash cans but throw their […]
God is Not Afraid of Your Sin
When asked which law was the most important, Jesus responded with, “Love.” All the laws can be summed up in this one commandment: LOVE. If we love Jesus, we won’t sin. We will keep His commandments. I used to see this verse as an instruction, now I see it as a description. A description of […]
God is a Communicator
The underlying truth to the suggestion that God is a communicating God lies in His nature and character. It is literally impossible to read the Bible and not see God talking with His people in some form or another, and they in return, hearing Him. During the decade I served as a missionary in East […]