by Elaine Olsen | Jun 19, 2008 | christian perfection, death, evil, living God's truth, theology
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” (Romans 12:9).What do you do with evil?What do you do with a story that breathes so heinous that it rocks you to core and forces you to utter words of vengeful wrath and retribution?What do you do with...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 16, 2008 | grace, parenting, Raising Faith
For Mom & Dad…thank you for raising “Faith Elaine” and for raising the faith of my heart. I love you. “‘He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. When he came to his senses, he said, “How...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 15, 2008 | family fun, letting go, parenting
We pause today for Father’s Day. I had some perfect thoughts for the occasion…part six of our series “Raising Faith.” It can wait until tomorrow, for seventeen years ago today, I had the privilege of bringing my second son into the world. He...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 12, 2008 | parenting, Raising Faith
“So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, ‘Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 10, 2008 | parenting, Raising Faith
“Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age, and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind...
