If your kids ever wonder, “What does God look like?” send them to me. I’ve seen His hands. I’ve seen them all my life – on an Iowa couple named George and Ruth. Before I could even read, I watched those hands empty bedpans, prepare sponge baths and feed Ruth’s elderly mother. During my teen …
Growing Your Faith Together
Take a look at seven common faith-launching worries parents face.
Serving your spouse should be considered an opportunity and conducted with joy. Jesus was the perfect example of serving with the right attitude.
Try using this activity to teach your kids about the existence of God.
Give your children a sense of the importance of joyful giving by being a good model.
The reality of the presence of adversity in life is a given.
Spiritual intimacy between a husband and wife provides a safe covering.
Finding volunteer opportunities for your kids is a good way to teach them compassion and stewardship as part of their service to God.
Together, we have unearthed one of the most overlooked secrets for a strong marriage — going into God’s presence together to pray and read His Word.
We so long to find or to create certainty in our lives. There is but one certainty in life, and that is the presence of our loving God.
Try using this activity to teach your kids that God wants us to be part of His family.
Now is the time for you to realize the incredible impact you can have on your child, helping him or her come to Christ and grow in that relationship.
How do you help your children care for others?
Is the do-as-I-say-not-as-the-TV-character-does approach to parenting working for you? Here’s why it probably isn’t.
While humility is not often praised in society today, it is a characteristic that Christ displayed at every turn. Marriage offers the perfect testing grounds for humility.
If you really want your spouse to see Jesus in you, you have to genuinely put into practice an attitude of becoming more like Christ in everything you do.
How do we prepare our kids to be “shrewd as serpents, and harmless as doves” when they serve? How do we teach them to discern how to give and serve with widsom?
Try using this activity to teach your kids that sin separates us from God.
Accept your children and the unique gifts and plans that God has for them.
Using consequences to foster responsibility, confidence and success