Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

—G. K. Chesteron, “The Red Angel” (1909)

From 'What Happens When You Deprive Children of Scary Stories'

1. Listening to Young Atheists
2. Lay Aside the Weight of Sluggishness
Identify the doubt. Sluggishness has a cause. What is sapping your faith?
Repent. Unbelief is a sin. Seek to actively turn from it.
Target that unbelief with biblical truth. Stop whatever else you may be doing for devotional reading and focus on and pray through texts that deal directly with this issue. Lay aside your other book reading and read things that address this doubt.
Don’t go it alone. Humble yourself and share your struggle with trusted counselors God has given you. Our great Coach often speaks through assistant coaches (Hebrews 3:13).
3. When the Not-Yet Married Meet
4. How Jack Miller Saved My Life

Thank God for Fabs Harford: Why get married at all and Two things I'm praying for marriage/singleness

Have American Parents Got It All Backwards? by Christine Gross-Loh.

From Francis Chan and David Platt's introduction to the new edition of Piper's ‘A Hunger for God ’ :

If we really want to be a part of seeing disciples made and churches multiplied throughout North America and to the ends of the earth, we would be wise to begin on our knees....There is spiritual delight to be found in God that far supersedes the physical diet of this world, and fasting is the means by which we say to God, “More than our stomachs want food, our souls want you.” Once we “taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8), the things of the world no longer appeal to us in the same way....We fast because we’re hungry for God’s Word and God’s Spirit in our lives. We fast because we long for God’s glory to resound in the church and God’s praise to resound among the nations. We fast because we yearn for God’s Son to return and God’s kingdom to come. Ultimately we fast simply because we want God more than we want anything this world has to offer us.

Telling the Story from the Bible, from the Gospel Coalition: wonderful story Bibles for people of all ages. Yes.

Nine Keys for Leading Women's Ministry by Hilary Tompkins, The Resurgence. 

Do you want the women you lead to be honest and transparent? Then you gotta go first, sister.Women follow many types of women leaders, but they see Jesus in a woman who is real, repentant, grace-giving, and living that out in front of her team.