Train Up A Child
Earlier this summer I was mowing our grass when all of a sudden I heard the sound of some frantic squawking. I noticed that the panicked chorus of noise was coming from a pair of adult robins who were close…
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Planting Seeds of Righteousness
Over the course of the last few months, my wife and I have been watching Call The Midwife, a long-running BBC television series about a group of nurse-midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s into…
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Raising Kids Not Grass
There’s an old story told about a man who got his neighbors angry when he stopped maintaining his once lush lawn. When he and his wife started having children, less time was spent on the lawn. Weeds overtook the grass.…
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Joshua’s Challenge To Parents
I love reading the Old Testament book of Joshua. In it we clearly see God’s grace-filled hand of provision and protection as he guides his people into the promised land. In Joshua chapter 23, Joshua gathers Israel’s leaders to say…
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Monitoring Kids Online
Here’s a funny little story that should remind us all to carefully monitor how and where our kids are spending their online time, regardless of their age! It seems that four-year-old Noah Bryant was spending not only time online, but…
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Parenting and the Frontal Lobe
It’s easy to be fooled by appearances. One way in which parents can be easily fooled is by the appearance of a child who has recently passed through puberty. It sure does happen fast, doesn’t it? And on the day…
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