Interesting history, fun activities, and meaningful ways to prepare, reflect, and renew your hearts together.
Celebrate Lent with Your Kids this Easter
Biblical Discipline Has Five Characteristics
Biblical discipline is more than correcting behavior—it’s a loving, intentional process rooted in God’s character. Scripture defines discipline and why it plays a vital role in guiding children toward maturity, obedience, and long-term spiritual growth.
How to Have a Happy Valentine’s Day with Your Spouse
Setting realistic expectations can help you avoid the pitfalls of this holiday
Cohabitation: Does it Help or Hurt?
Many couples today are asking whether they should live together before marriage. At a recent marriage conference, one young man asked Greg Smalley that very question — honestly, directly, and with a desire to do what’s right. His answer, shaped by Scripture, research, and decades of working with couples, offers a perspective most people never hear.
How and When Should I Begin Sex Education with my Child?
Sex education can be intimidating. Yet, God created sex. Find more ways to teach healthy sexuality to your children.
How Birth Order Affects Your Marriage
Because of birth order, the place in their families of origin, spouses have different experiences growing up, and that shapes behavior, personalities and relationships with each other. Understanding how birth order affects how your spouse thinks and behaves can improve communication in your marriage.
What is Biblical Leadership in Marriage?
Ephesians 5:23 calls men to be leaders in the home. “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior” (ESV).
What If Your Child Sees Inappropriate Content Online?
What do you do if your child has seen explicit content? For Christians parents the answer to this problem lies in prayer, emotional processing, open communication, boundaries, education, and support systems rooted in biblical truth.
Family Focus Newsletter | February 2026
What’s really important? In our tumultuous culture, everyone has an opinion on what matters most. If you listen to the loudest voices in our society, you might think the greatest […]
How Pornography Impacts Marriage
Pornography — whether used infrequently or as an addiction — is a big deal. It sacrifices true intimacy, forsakes a real relationship for a lying imitation, and twists the true purpose of sex. Porn rewires the brain to focus on “you” — not on intimacy.