My wife had to travel to Texas for approximately five days due to a death in the family. That meant I was going to be at home with our three little children for five days on my own. These five days gave me an opportunity to think about the difficulty that single parents endure week in and week out. I understand that single parenting is not the ideal according to God's design. God's established the family to consist of a husband and a wife (Gen. 2:23-25). God designed the family as a husband and a wife parenting their children in accordance with God's instructions together (Ex. 20:12, Eph. 6:1-4). However, we live in a fallen world that has been corrupted by sin (Gen. 3). Single parents are my heroes and heroines. Over these last five days, I made three observations about single parents that convinced me that the church should come alongside single parents to help them in their God given task to raise their children. Moreover, the gospel remains essential for single par...