“Holidays”

In this week's podcast, CMR Co-Directors Dr. Chris and Alisa Grace address the not-so-glamorous realities that can come with the holiday season and offer practical tips for how to center your family on each other and Christ this Christmas. 

In this week's video, New Testament professor and scholar Dr. Matt Williams helps the CMR celebrate Thanksgiving by sharing the importance of the spiritual discipline of Thanksgiving, not just the holiday. 

There are lots of ways to say “I love you” during the holidays, aren’t there? But truly, Christmas is the greatest “I love you” all. It’s the ferocious “I love you” from the throne of heaven, because it’s about a God who became man just to show us His love in a tangible way. In today's blog, Debra Fileta offers 12 days of practical ways to "say I love you without words." 

In today's video, staff counselor Sarah Do offers tips for setting the tone of conversation around the table and emphasizes the need for grace. 

"Gratitude turns what we have, into enough." This Thanksgiving season, we want to encourage you to practice gratitude beyond the Thanksgiving table. In today's video New Testament department chair and director of the BA-MA programs at Talbot School of Theology, Dr. Matt Williams, shares the importance of gratitude as a spiritual discipline. 

In this blog post, Willa Williams encourages you to consider making a New Year's resolution to be kinder to people around you, while explaining the difference between kindness and niceness.

Are you settling for someone just to avoid loneliness? It's cuffing season, and sometimes that means feeling desperate for any human connection. In today's podcast, Dr. Chris and Alisa Grace discuss loneliness, finding friendship, and developing deeper emotional connections.

Is there a certain thing your spouse does that drives you crazy? No matter how "perfect" a relationship appears, the answer is most likely yes. In today's blog, Alisa Grace shares a personal story about how God changed her perspective using an old blue chair.