Episode 226: “Purposeful Parenting Summer Series – Raising Discerning Kids”
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:Spiritual Nurture: Our Kids and Decision-Making DiscernmentHow to Use Your Head to Guard Your Heart: A 3(D)…
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The Power of Parental Transparency
One of the most heart-breaking and difficult aspects of being a Christian parent who longs to see his kids embrace and mature in their own faith, is the rocky nature of adolescent faith. Much of their “wavering” is simply a…
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Teaching Truths to Kids
I have an eleven year old grandson who has a history of asking deep theological questions that are not always easily answered. For example, he recently asked how old Adam and Eve were when they sinned. I wasn’t quite sure…
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Your Kids and the Holy Spirit
One of the most important lessons we as Christian parents need to learn is that, as the Bible says, salvation is of the Lord. We cannot drag our kids kicking and screaming into God’s Kingdom. It is the Holy Spirit…
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Embracing Suffering
We live in a current cultural climate that teaches our children to avoid pain and pursue pleasure. While none of us like pain and we do like pleasure, the reality is that we live in a broken world where pain…
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Episode 225: “Purposeful Parenting Summer Series – Habitus & Their Hearts”
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:CPYU Parent Prompts CPYU Together in the Word Facebook GroupCPYU Reading Discussion Group on FacebookThe Word in…
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Is Family Number One For You?
Last year, the Gallup organization released the results of their latest American Values Index. Respondents were given a list of twenty-three values and were asked to choose all of those values that were important to them. Finishing at the top…
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The Answer to Our Deepest Desire
All this week we’ve been looking at some great quotes that help us to look deeply into who we are and how our culture has shaped us and our kids. Here’s quote from C.S. Lewis: “If I find in myself…
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What is True Faith?
All this week we’re looking at some great quotes that help us to look deeply into who we are and how our culture has shaped us and our kids. Here’s one from writer G.K. Chesteron: “Christianity has died many times…
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Are You Talking about God?
All this week we’re looking at some great quotes that help us to look deeply into who we are and how our culture has shaped us and our kids. Journalist Dorothy Day wrote these thought-provoking words: “If I have achieved…
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