Don’t Jump Into The Digital Landscape
With artificial intelligence spreading like wildfire through the digital landscape and into the lives of our kids, we would be mindful to tread carefully and set limits knowing that jumping into new technologies is sure to bring a mix of…
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Cultivating Life Long Faith 2
All this week we’re looking at David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock’s book Faith for Exiles, and the five ministry practices churches and families must pursue to lead kids into life-long faith. The research done by Kinnaman and Matlock indicates that…
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Can we Flourish without Biblical Christianity?
Russell Kirk was a twentieth century social critic who back in 1992 said something very important regarding the changes taking place in culture as it slides further and further into secularism, and what needs to take place. Kirk said, “If…
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Entrusting Children to God 4
All this week we’re looking at what it means for us as Christian parents to entrust our children to God. In First Timothy four, six to ten we learn that to entrust your children to God is to train them…
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Facing Satan’s Strategies 2
All this week we’re looking at some four-hundred year old guidance and advice from the Puritan writer, Thomas Brooks. Specifically, Brooks has listed five remedies to the enemy of the soul’s strategy to get us to see following Jesus as…
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Episode 204: “Purposeful Parenting: Teaching Kids To Hear God’s Will”
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Don’t Follow Your Heart: Boldly Breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship by Thaddeus J. WilliamsCPYU Table…
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Episode 202: “Purposeful Parenting: What Kind of Proverbial Fool Am I?”
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: God’s Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs by…
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Spiritual Nurture: Our Kids and Decision-Making Discernment
The cultural trend is what I call “too much time spent living life in the moment.” This is “Carpe Diem!” and “YOLO” taken to an extreme. While followers of Jesus are called to make the most of every moment, we…
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A Sexualized Society
I’m on the couch, watching a movie with three of my grandsons, ages seven, ten, and eleven. Each one of these boys is inching closer to puberty, which means living in a body that is able by God’s design to…
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Mother’s Day Truth 4
As we prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, I thought it would be good to spend our week looking at some helpful parenting truths. Today’s truth is this: Any kid, anywhere, anytime. Sadly, there’s an assumption flying around that Christian kids…
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