Sowing Seeds in a Child’s Life
One of the best guides for how to pray for our kids is the parable of the sower, which can be found in Mark four. As Jesus is teaching about the power of Gospel to transform lives, he uses this…
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Spiritual Nurture: Make Life Hard For Your Kids
In today’s world, parental intervention and running interference for our kids has become standard practice… But are these practices that make for good parenting?” Download the free Spiritual Nurture handout here.
A Compelling Witness for our Kids
In his book, “The Patient Ferment of the Early Church”, Alan Kreider offers an explanation of how Christianity took root and grew in the Roman Empire, even though the church was marginalized, despised, and discriminated against. The parallels to the…
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What Teens Wish Their Parents Knew 5
Today, we come to the end of our week-long long look at researcher Ellen Galinsky’s new book about teenagers, “The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens”. In it, Galinsky lists five things teens wish their parents…
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Spiritual Nurture: Your Kids and Your Time
God has established parents – nobody or nothing else – as the ones primarily responsible for the spiritual nurture of children. Shouldn’t this mean we need to spend our time wisely? Download the free Spiritual Nurture handout here.
Modeling the Faith
The office of the United States Surgeon General recently released a report entitled, “Parents Under Pressure: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents.” In his introduction to the report, Surgeon General Murthy writes these…
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Entrusting Children to God 5
Today we conclude our week-long look at what it means to entrust our children to God. To entrust our children to God is to completely entrust our children to God! While yes, we have been given the aforementioned responsibilities to…
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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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Entrusting Children to God 3
All this week we’re looking at what it means for us as Christian parents to entrust our children to God. To entrust your children to God is to teach them doctrine. Our children and teens are seeking answers to two…
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