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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Growing Your Faith Together

Let Your Kids Fail

Using consequences to foster responsibility, confidence and success

Pray With Your Children

Pray With Your Children

No matter how old your children are, it’s never too late to begin praying with them.

Practical Service

How can you as a parent practically instill principles of selfless love and sacrifice in your child?

God’s Word: Your Family’s Foundation

Demonstrate to your children that God’s Word is your number one priority.

Help your child shift from gimme to grateful

Go From “Gimme” to Grateful Kids

Teaching children to be grateful and generous is a Christmas gift that can last a lifetime.

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What If We Don’t Like the Same Church?

Most couples, if they’re seeking to please God, do eventually find a church where both spouses are satisfied. You can, too.

Teaching Service

Jesus set the standard of selflessness for His disciples when He told them to be His “witnesses, in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Such a command implies a life lived for others. While it may be too early to burden young children with such …

What Is Service?

I never want my children to count their blessings in lieu of reaching out.

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What Service Looks Like

Christ calls us to live our faith by loving and serving the people He brings into our lives. How are you training your children to do this?

Why Service is Necessary

Why Service Is Necessary

We serve others because of the example Christ set for us.

Serving Others

Christian couples have something to offer, even though we feel otherwise at times. We have our hearts, our time and the wisdom God has given us from life experiences. Going into a cocoon isn’t healthy for our marriage, our family or the body of Christ.

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Sharing the Gospel With Your Children

Many Christian parents face a paradox: How can some children hear the good news of the Bible and believe, while others hear the same message and remain unaffected? While the process of faith may be miraculous, it is not entirely mysterious. Jesus explained it in His parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-23). Teaching received without …

Teaching Children to Be Peacemakers

Here are 12 principles you can teach your children to help them resolve conflicts among themselves or with their friends.

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How to Answer Your Child’s Faith Questions, Part 2

Here are more answers to questions your child may ask about God.

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Beginning to Pray Together

These eight suggestions will help you begin to pray together as a couple and deepen your spiritual intimacy.