Listen and subscribe: Youtube – Spotify – Apple Podcasts Parenting is difficult. Disciplining proves even harder. Many of the best of men and women have failed at parenting. Abraham alienated …
Your oldest child heads off to college. A friend you led to Christ and have been discipling moves over 1,000 miles away. Your work contract …
A line of children—your children—stare up at you from the sofa. The younger ones bounce with anticipation. The teens raise their eyebrows in skepticism. Family …
And they’re off! With the bang of your hand against the alarm clock (or your iPhone hitting the floor), your day begins. A horse race …
Raising children is like concocting a magic potion. Throw the list of ingredients into the cauldron at the proper time and—BOOM—out springs a godly, successful …
Christians should parent their children in a gospel-centered manner, even when it comes to schoolwork.
“God does not want us to be spiritual mushrooms,” wrote J. O. Fraser in 1918 from the Yunnan province of China.[1] Fraser spoke from experience—in …
If I want my children to give me their heart, I must not miss those tender moments when they offer it.
In a previous post, I suggested that our natural tendency is to put other people somewhere along an imaginary line, stretched between the two poles …
God never promises that these tasks will yield immediate fruit, that parenting will get easier, or my life more comfortable. God loves me too much to give me the luxury of walking by sight. So, if you’re like me and are looking for a little Bible encouragement and resolution in your parenting, let this conviction settle down deep: your children are a grace; they’re an enduring legacy, a strong security, and a powerful weapon of warfare in God’s Kingdom.
