What does it look like for the gospel to deeply inform and transform your parenting? Christian counsellor Paul Tripp provides 14 gospel principles that can radically change your family. Tripp keeps the biblical big picture of parenting front and centre - a picture that focuses on the heart of your child and not simply behaviour modification. This book gives parents a lot of hope…not a list of more things to “do better”.

In this book, Tim Keller provides one of the most comprehensive but accessible resources on biblical marriage. He underscores the various components of a biblical marriage including its purpose and its mission. Most importantly he brings to bear the deep truths of the gospel on the everyday outworkings of a marriage relationship.

Here are a few numbers that will probably stagger you. These are hours spent doing these things across the average persons life-time: eating = 32,098, driving = 37,935 (age 17-80), at work = 90,360.

Recently, I received a devotional from a friend who attends Port City Church.  David Boyce has been a tremendous encouragement to our pastoral team and it is clear that the Lord has gifted him with the gift of intercession.  David wrote out this devotional for friends and family that he has been fervently praying for and with his permission I am sharing it on our blog.  Read, rejoice, take comfort.

Over the years in pastoral ministry one of the recurring questions I get from university students and young adults is something to the effect of: what is God calling me to do?  Oftentimes this conversation involves the individual's vocation or career.  Understanding one’s vocational calling can be a large and at times stressful discernment process.  However, I find that more often we become consumed with our “specific” calling at the detriment of living out our “general” calling from the Lord.