The Positive Role of Relationships
All this week we’ve been looking at helpful insights for Christian parents from Dr. Christian Smith’s research on how parents pass their faith on to the next generation. In addition to reminding Christian parents of the role that walking their…
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The Importance of Faith Conversations
All this week we’re looking at helpful insights for Christian parents from Dr. Christian Smith’s research on how parents pass their faith on to the next generation. In addition to reminding Christian parents of the role that walking their talk…
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Episode 228: “Purposeful Parenting Summer Series – Prioritizing Faith”
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:A Prayer for our Kids as They Head Back to SchoolCPYU Parent Prompt: Parents As DisciplersCPYU Parent…
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How Are You Shaping the Faith of Your Kids?
All this week we’re looking at helpful insights for Christian parents from Dr. Christian Smith’s research on how parents pass their faith on to the next generation. Smith has found that no other institution or program comes close to the…
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Kids, Faith, and Parental Influence
I have found Researcher Dr. Christian Smith to be a huge help to me in my various roles as a dad, a grandfather, and trainer of youth workers and parents. Smith, who teaches sociology at the University of Notre Dame,…
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Parents, You Are Significant
“Home is where the heart is.” That cliché is a great descriptor of the way that a little child’s life revolves around family and home. Then, the teenage years arrive and something begins to change. Because they are now growing…
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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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