i have a friend who has wrestled with God for a really long time about being single. at one point, he truly felt that the Lord was asking him to surrender his dreams for a family, and learning to live in the tension between honestly wanting to surrender and yet not being super-happy about it…
I was out to dinner with three of my (single guy) friends awhile ago, and (as inevitably seems to happen in groups of single people) The Subject came up. “There’s this girl…” They’d been spending a lot of time together; he was pretty sure she was into him; he really just wanted to be friends….
We’ve talked about what not to say to your single friends – and knowing what not to say is certainly helpful – but what do we say instead? How do we learn from stories like Sara’s, and create a culture within the church that doesn’t make single people feel like second-class citizens? You’ll notice that…
Today’s post in this series on singleness and the church is a guest post by my dear friend, Sara Rendall. I grew up in the church; my parents raised me in youth groups and bible studies, and I always just assumed I would finish school, go to college, meet Prince Charming, get married, and raise…
What is the absolute hardest thing about being a single Christian? Well – if we all had to sum it up collectively, we’d probably have to go with, “Um… being single?” There are likely actually hundreds of answers to that question, dependent on age, gender, culture, personality, and other circumstances; even in my own life,…
