At some point, most parent wonders if they’re making a difference in their kids’ lives.
Does Parenting Make a Difference?
Improve Your Marriage Through Thankfulness
A genuine spirit of thankfulness is more than politeness, good manners or an attempt to muster positive feelings. It flows deep from the heart and can continually refresh your marriage relationship.
Married to a Secret Agent
Your Secret Agent is intimacy-challenged. He or she may have no trouble talking about superficial things. But he or she closes down when it comes to any personal, below-the-surface conversation.
Shadows From the Past
Everyone brings baggage from past relationships, but you can pull from the strengths you’ve gained from your past — maturity, patience, wisdom, godliness — to build a new marriage and family.
Accountability Means Building Faithful Friendships
Accountability is faithful friendship, doing life side by side with a comrade, a friend or a co-worker. But we must be intentional about engaging others on this quest for a life of purity.
Choose Joy Over Happiness
When troubles come, joy is often exposed as undependable happiness. Kay and Rick Warren learned that happiness wasn’t enough — they needed joy — true joy that can only come from God.
David Robinson: Parenting in the Fourth Quarter
NBA legend David Robinson talks about preparing to launch his three sons.
Raising Resilient Kids
How to teach kids to bounce back after they face adversity or hardship.
Can We Change Our Focus to See the Scenery of Tomorrow in Our Marriage?
I wonder what our lives would be like if we reframed how we thought about our tasks. What if we regularly took time to stop and see how far we’ve come, and then gave thanks for our progress?
Who Did You Marry?: Understanding Your Spouse
People who have been staunchly committed to faith and family fall into trouble when they don’t grow with their spouse. We need to continually “update” our knowledge about our husband or wife.