November 22nd, 2021
Let’s evaluate another common idea about parenting and see if it aligns with the word of God. It is popular to redirect a child’s undesirable behavior to something acceptable, either before they engage in the wrong act, or after, but without…
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October 26th, 2021
What do the experts say? When I hear young Christian parents talk about parenting, there seems to be an underlying sense of confusion. Their ideas are often a hodgepodge of reactions to their childhood, what they studied in college, what their…
October 14th, 2021
I am always convicted by the story in Luke 10 of sisters Mary and Martha and the common comparison between them. However, there’s another Mary comparison that I’d like to explore. Let’s Examine Mary, the Mother of Jesus. As a…
March 24th, 2019
I’m actually working the equation backwards with these assignments. Ideally the first thing you would begin teaching your children is to obey you immediately, but I figure that lots of you already have children who aren’t very pleasant to be…
November 8th, 2018
I’ve encouraged you to consider goals for your family, to think about what you want to see in the lives of your children when they leave your home. Hopefully it’s something beyond ‘get a college degree in a field that pays well and has a good…
October 11th, 2017
I wonder if perhaps popular culture has so permeated our thinking that we no longer have clear ideas about Biblical truth addressing areas of life…like why children disobey. So the other day a young mom watched her son blatantly disobey her,…
November 7th, 2015